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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …
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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Office. We compare the efficacy of mobile former university scientists to the effects of mobile workers hired from other … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … less to industrial innovation than recent university graduates. By contrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative …
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Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on innovative activity at the plant level. Such a...
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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies
García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines the determinants of young innovative companies' (YICs) R&D activities taking into account the autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990-2008, we find that previous R&D experience is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371918
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Does Easy Start-Up Formation Hamper Incumbents' R&D Investment? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Colombo, Luca; Dawid, Herbert; Piva, Mariacristina; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the implications that complementary assets needed for the formation of start-ups – proxied by the ease of access to financial resources – have on the innovative efforts of incumbent firms. In particular, we develop a theoretical...
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One or Many Knowledge Production Functions? Mapping Innovative Activity Using Microdata
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm’s own formal R&D activities and at the acquisition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703589
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Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms’ innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822124
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The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs
Vivarelli, Marco; Catozzella, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The aim of this study is to test the possible catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998-2000). The interactions between four different sources of...
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How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are tested on a sample of innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002825
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Succeeding in Innovation: Key Insights on the Role of R&D and Technological Acquisition Drawn from Company Data
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new product and/or process innovations. In doing so, this analysis departs from the standard approach which puts forward a homogenous R&D-based knowledge production function by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735643