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Schumpeterian growth theory has “operationalized” Schumpeter’s notion of creative destruction by developing models based on this concept. These models shed light on several aspects of the growth process which could not be properly addressed by alternative theories. In this survey, we focus...
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We assess the impact of the location of genuinely new ventures and spinoffs on these firms’ survival, productivity and …
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A longstanding research tradition assumes that endogenous technological development increases regional productivity. It … endogenous creation of new ideas that result in productivity improvements. This process has been conceived as occurring in two … the individual or firm owning the idea. Typically these steps are combined into a single model of the “invention in/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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productivity index with a directional distance function. Unlike a conventional geometric mean form of the Malmquist …-Luenberger productivity index, this global index is circular and free from linear programming (LP) infeasibility. It can also be decomposed … into certain sources of productivity growth such as efficiency change and technical change. The suggested methodology is …
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higher productivity, profitability and wage level than other firms. The second question is focused on the location of firms …
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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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how attributes of MNEs and non-MNEs differ, and how these differences affect the productivity and export intensity. It …
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Iceland is one of the smallest European economies and the country was hit severely by the 2008-financial crisis. This paper considers the economy in the period preceding the collapse. Applying a Data Envelopment Analysis on 204 randomly selected firms, the results suggest that a substantial...
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Information and knowledge are essential to the decision making of firms. However, information is a primitive in the formation of knowledge. Information and the related concepts of risk and surprise are primarily of importance for rational decision making while knowledge is a form of...
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