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This article discusses the visions about nuclear breeder reactors, plans set out in the aftermath of World War II. This seemed like the ideal solution for future energy, and even small countries, as Sweden, launched breeder reactor programs. The breeder reactor never reached industrial...
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This paper rigorously explores the impact of firm’s collaboration with universities on innovation. Specifically, using … average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …
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firms in terms of survival, productivity and growth? Using a panel of about 2,000 ex-employee starts ups, their parent …
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I analyze the effects of sub-city level density of economic activity on worker productivity. Using a geocoded dataset … is that if the data source is not sufficiently disaggregated, analyses of the density-productivity link risk understating …
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analysis focuses on as¬sessing whether the productivity of the regional manufacturing industry of non-affiliated firms is … appear to benefit the most from local presence of MNFs. The MNFs have, on the other hand, no effect on non-MNF productivity …
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between regional productivity measures as gross regional product per square kilometre and accessibility to educated labour. We …
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The Schumpeterian view on Business cycles treats recessions as a cleansing mechanism and a state where firms can … regroup and innovate. Firms need to access finance externally in order to compensate declining cash flow in recessions. Due to … intensity when cash flow declines. This enables firms with collateral to benefit from recessions like Schumpeter proposed. In …
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This paper tests the importance of firm level knowledge and neighborhood diversity, as a source for localized knowledge spillovers, on firms propensity to innovate. Diversity is measured in terms of industries as well as employee education and occupation, of which the results show a positive...
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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …
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