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The Lifecycle of Regions
Audretsch, David B; Falck, Oliver; Feldman, Maryann P; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
routinized phase where innovation takes place within top-performing incumbents; (3) a second entrepreneurial phase characterized … routinization, in which no further innovation takes place, but is instead a phase of structural change. Using data on 74 West German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124213
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The Missing Link: The Knowledge Filter and Entrepreneurship in Endogenous Growth
Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter. A cross-country regression analysis over the period 1981 … entrepreneurship may be an important new approach to promoting economic growth. …
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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms
Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745829
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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125961
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126145
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Cultural diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship: firm-level evidence from London
Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is … entrepreneurship. Overall, the results provide some support for claims that diversity is an economic asset, as well as a social benefit. …
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084260
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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Exit of venture-backed firms often takes place through sales to large incumbent firms. We show that in such an environment, venture-backed firms have a stronger incentive to develop basic innovations into commercialized innovations than incumbent firms, due to strategic product market effects....
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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884530
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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations
Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928762