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INNOVATION AND VENTURE CAPITAL EXITS
SCHWIENBACHER, Armin - EconWPA - 2001
-improving product innovation. We explicitly introduce product market characteristics into the analysis with the aim to identify their … capitalist. The entrepreneur has incentives to distort the innovation strategy so as to make an IPO the preferred exit. We derive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413189
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Scale, scope and entrepreneurship
Bitros, George C. - EconWPA - 2004
geographically and function-ally. They promoted rapid innovation by resorting to systematic Research and Development ef- forts. And … innovation in the econ-omy. Hence, to the extent that policy makers strive to achieve the priorities of citizens, they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413293
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Competitive Advantages of the Beira Interior (Portugal): A TOWS Approach
Ferreira, Joao; Leitao, Joao; Raposo, Mario - EconWPA - 2005
The formulation of a competitive strategy implies an extended understanding, in terms of the industrial structures, of the mains fields where the nations compete and those structures evolve. The environmental conditions of a region, and of its industries, determine both the generic strategies,...
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: An Obvious Conjunction?
DEJARDIN, Marcus - EconWPA - 2001
This paper consists of an introductory survey of two fundamental questions regarding the link between entrepreneurship … and economic growth. The first one deals with the endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. In … particular, we suggest that, while more entrepreneurship could mean more economic growth, economic growth in turn could affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118761
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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412877
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Ideas for Growth?
Maré, David. C. - EconWPA - 2004
There is much talk of the knowledge economy, and the central role of ideas and knowledge in generating economic growth. This paper provides a brief review of the economic literature on how skills/ knowledge/ ideas might contribute to higher output or higher rates of growth. Ideas are...
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STOCK MARKET VALUATION IN THE UNITED STATES
BISCIARI, Patrick; DURRE, Alain; NYSSENS, Alain - EconWPA - 2003
This paper gives an overview of some issues related to market aluation, focusing on the developments on the New York equity markets. The 42.4 p.c. fall in the S&P 500 price index between 24 March 2000 - when it reached its all-time high - and 31 December 2002 is situated in a very long term...
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Modelling Possible Impacts of GM Crops on Australian Trade
Stone, Susan; Matysek, Anna; Dolling, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003
This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and regulatory costs for Australia and its major trading...
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Marx and the Mechanism of Functioning of a Socialist Economy
Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005
This paper was presented at the Belgrade conference for one hundred years anniversary of 'Das Kapital'. Marx himself said very little about the concrete organization of a socialist economy. His general remarks about socialism were 'elaborated' by his followers by inference from Marx's criticism...
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Optimal Central Planning in 'Competitive Solution'
Kyn, Oldrich; Rychetnik, Ludek - EconWPA - 2005
This essay originated from the discussions of the role of central plan in an economic system with a functioning market mechanism. Such discussions emerged because of the implementation of the 'New Economic System'in Czechoslovakia. Under the old system, the role of the plan was considered clear...
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