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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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Agglomeration and Innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....
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The theory of entrepreneurship and evolutionary economics
Кантарбаева, Алия; Мустафин, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
The paper presents the analysis of recent developments of Schumpeterian theory of entrepreneurship and innovation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212782
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Local Systems’ Strategies Copying with Globalization: Collective Local Entrepreneurship
Covi, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
this gap introducing the concept of ‘Collective Local Entrepreneurship’, a reference point, a device to whom anchor the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260113
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Кластерные стратегии и кластерные инициативы: перспективы и факторы эффективной кластеризации
Filippova, Irina; Mindlin, Yuri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
successful clustering is the development of entrepreneurship, and the expected result (i.e. the purpose of cluster initiatives … potential of entrepreneurship’s development. It allows not only to substantiate the thesis about the dominant influence of … social factors but also to reveal the implicit contradiction between the social and economic aspects of entrepreneurship able …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260732
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Innovation, strategic renewal and its effect on small firm performance
Folkeringa, Mickey; Stel, Andre van; Meijaard, Joris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between strategic renewal and the performance of smaller firms (less than 100 employees). We use a panel of micro data on about 1000 Dutch firms. The dataset contains information on aspects of strategic renewal, including process innovation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252218
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Entrepreneurship: what´s happening?
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Much has been said lately about entrepreneurship, so it seems important to leave here some personal analysis on this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211239
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The Geography of Creative People in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Stützer, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
It has been argued that creativity is an important source of regional growth. This article investigates the geography of people in creative occupation in Germany. The population share of the creative class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457192
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Entrepreneurship Spillover and the determinants of Key Sectors for new business creation: An inter-sectorial approach
Massón-Guerra, José Luis; Vendrell-Ferrero, Ferran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge … entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover among sectors. From an adaptation of the model of input-output matrix … (Leontief, 1936; Dietzenbacher and Los, 2002) we develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787197
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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
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