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Although there is a large and rapidly growing literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation, relatively little is known about the interrelation between the characteristics of start-up firms and urban structure. It is only recently that scholars of urban economics...
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respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two different skills (technological and systemic skills) and we are able to …
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much of the cumulative innovation literature. When the research abilities of the firms differ, either the high ability firm …
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The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining … data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …
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an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …
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This paper examines the association between the outcome of business incubation and the resources used by incubators, by using a small panel of science and technology business incubators (STBIs) in China. We find that while the number of firms graduating from an STBI is closely correlated with...
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revolution through entrepreneurs' role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture … eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave its Malthusian trap, an industrial revolution is delayed as entrepreneurs of … entrepreneurs, as managers, serendipitously identify new useful discoveries in all times, and an industrial revolution inevitably …
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In the past years biofuels have received increased attention since they were believed to contribute to rural development, energy security and to fight global warming. It became also clear, though, that bioenergy cannot be evaluated independently of the rest of the economy and that national and...
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for different business strategies and innovation inputs connected to product and process innovations. The empirical … analysis uses innovation survey (CIS 2) data at the industry level for 22 manufacturing sectors, broken down in three firm size …
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This paper analyses the nature of knowledge spillovers from research and development (R&D) in the field of liquid crystal display technology by estimating the impact of inventorsÂ’ changing organizational and collaborative affiliations on the probability of citations in US patents filed...
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