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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836495
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Macroeconomic Change, and Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions: The Indian Experience, 1991-2010
Reddy, Kotapati Srinivasa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the market for cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CB-M&A) representing the Asian emerging market-India for the period 1991 through 2010. I also compare the market in India among the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia and China (including Hong Kong)) for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251877
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Borders and Distance in Knowledge Spillovers: Dying Over Time or Dying with Age? - Evidence from Patent Citations
Li, Yao Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper explores the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders on international and intranational knowledge spillovers through patent citations across the 39 most patent-cited countries and 319 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) within the U.S. In contrast to previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107907
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The global start ups from Indian IT
Varma, Sumati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper examines the phenomenon of accelerated internationalization of firms from the Indian IT industry. It examines the emergence of the Born Global firm in the Indian context with a specific focus on firms which made an acquisition within five years of incorporation. It specifically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008494194
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Regional innovation systems in the global information technology industry: the non-internationalisation of greek smes
Arapoglou, Vassilis; Palaskas, Theodosios; Tsampra, Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Economic competitiveness is today, more than ever, related to business innovation capacity. Given this fact, the present paper offers an insight into the contemporary pattern of innovativeness of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), which often represent the most dynamic actors in national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322630
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Family Firms and Regional Innovation Activity: Evidence from the German Mittelstand
Block, Joern; Spiegel, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Family firms are important not only for a region but for the economy as a whole. In particular, the long-term orientation and the local embeddedness of family firms suggest a positive effect on regional innovation activity. Yet, despite the widely acknowledged importance of family firms for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836745
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies
Ács, Zoltán; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864503
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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
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 or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864516
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O’Gorman, Colm; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864527
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt
Acs, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864529