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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …

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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Cultural diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship: firm-level evidence from London

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is … entrepreneurship. Overall, the results provide some support for claims that diversity is an economic asset, as well as a social benefit. …

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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil

Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...

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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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Building BRICS: 2-Stage DEA analysis of R&D Efficiency

Cai, Yuezhou; Hanley, Aoife - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Should inputs such as bank finance affect innovation in BRICS vs. developed countries similarly? Arguably these … and Tobit to a sample of 22 countries, we show how innovation (measured patents, scientific publications and high …

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Trust-based Work-time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …

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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies

Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

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(In)determinacy, bargaining, and R&D policies in an economy with endogenous technological change

Lai, Chung-hui - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

In this paper, the author shows how the introduction of a bargaining game structure into a standard R&D endogenous growth model can be a potential source of local indeterminacy. He also shows that on a high-growth path, the government, by directly engaging in R&D activities and using R&D...

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