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IE WP 02/04 Technology and the environment: an evolutionary approach to sustainable technological change

Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier - EconWPA - 2005

Can the individual actions of agents spontaneously move the system out of a state where it is locked into an environmentally inferior technology, or is coordination from outside the system necessary in the form of public intervention? More importantly, even if the system were able to make the...

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IE WP 20/03 An Evolutionary Approach to the Process of Technology Diffusion and Standardization

Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier - EconWPA - 2005

the related phenomenon of standardization. Secondly, it aims to show a broadened and evolutionary view of the process of … technology standardization, avoiding the habitual determinism of conventional models of technology diffusion and lock-in. Finally … attributes of the technology standardization processes in them. To achieve these goals we have developed an agent based model …

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Absorptive Capacity – One Size Fits All? A Firm-level Analysis of Absorptive Capacity for Different Kinds of Knowledge

Schmidt, Tobias - EconWPA - 2005

The paper empirically analyses the effect of R&D activities, human resource and knowledge management, and the organisation of knowledge sharing within a firm on the absorptive capacity of innovative firms for three different types of knowledge, namely absorptive capacity to use knowledge from a...

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Geneses of labour market turnover: Job search and entrepreneurial aspirations on-the-job

Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. We analyze empirically these two “search processes” side-by-side and report three main findings: First, neither entrepreneurial...

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Entrepreneurial Efficiency: Theory

Takii, Katsuya - EconWPA - 2004

.e., their prediction ability), and derives an aggregate production function as a result of entrepreneurship. An increase in … affects the total factor productivity (TFP) of an economy, the model can explain how entrepreneurship influences TFP. …

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Entrepreneurial Efficiency: An Empirical Framework and Evidence

Takii, Katsuya - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines a particular aspect of entrepreneurship, namely firms' activities in adapting to idiosyncratic …

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INOVATIONS - ENTREPRENEURSHIP - CREDIT in the Theory of J.A. Schumpeter

Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005

Short explanation of Schumpeter's concepts of dynamics, innovations and entrepreneurship. It is argued, that …

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New Trade Theory Takes Over Monetary Theory

Gani, M - EconWPA - 2004

Prevailing trade theory is a neglected stepchild of economics. Micro rejects the sole reason for trade’s occurrence. It declares zero profit in equilibrium. Monetary theory and macroeconomics dismiss concerns of trade financing. They assert that money has nothing to do with traded output, but...

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Investor protection and business creation

Hyytinen, Ari; Takalo, Tuomas - EconWPA - 2004

We study the effects of investor protection on the availability of external finance, entrepreneurship, and creation of … surplus between entrepreneurs and financiers. The results indicate that anything that increases (decreases) entrepreneurship …

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INNOVATION AND VENTURE CAPITAL EXITS

SCHWIENBACHER, Armin - EconWPA - 2001

This paper addresses the choice between different exit routes of venture capitalists for a project yielding a quality-improving product innovation. We explicitly introduce product market characteristics into the analysis with the aim to identify their effects on the optimal exit strategy and on...

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