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, where a non-governmental organization (NGO) rather than a regulator watches over citizens' interests. The innovation … innovation process is considered in terms of a redistribution of profit towards community development, with or without additional … demonstrates that the firm's choice of VA hinges on the tradeoffs between appropriating the full innovation profit and paying a …
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This paper investigates FDI-related spillovers in Brazil for the period 1996-2005. In contrast to most previous recent … arise in Brazil. However, they did not arise simply as a consequence of general FDI-mediated technology transfer from MNC …
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual’s decision to start a business is determined by his...
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various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …
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improve our understanding of how governance structures influence entrepreneurship and innovation it is instructive to consider …Governance is often treated as a 'black box' explanation for unproductive or destructive entrepreneurship. In order to … game of informal clientelism and formal programmatic competition shapes entrepreneurship. In this paper I provide an …
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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 …
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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...
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