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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …
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This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …
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migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …
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's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …
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This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer‐employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …
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that reduce incentives to invest in new knowledge. Using a formal model of innovation we identify conditions where the … innovation benefits of job-hopping exceed the costs from reduced incentives to invest in human capital. These conditions likely …. Consistent with our model of innovation, we also find that outside of the computer industry, California’s mobility rates are no …
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distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
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