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Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions … between invention and innovation. They then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and they discuss factors that help sustain these …

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik G. - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2006

We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We argue that firms...

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Firm Size and the Quality of Entrepreneurs

Hvide, Hans K. - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2004

A theory is proposed where the pay policy and size of established firms are determined together with individual workers' entrepreneurship decision. The main results are twofold. First, taking the firm size as given, larger firms tend to have less flexible wages and produce entrepreneurs of...

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