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Foreign and Native-Born STEM Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity … area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM fields have a smaller and statistically insignificant effect on … native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these …

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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Co-determination and Innovation

Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law …

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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

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …

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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

on rare "high-impact metrics" (e.g. creating patents and avoiding truck accidents), despite having similar …

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Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance

Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a database project. Students in the award … treatment were offered a congratulatory card from the organization honoring the best performance. The award was purely symbolic … award treatment outperform students in the control treatment by about 12 percent on average. Our results provide strong …

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Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Pogge, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Interventions that improve childhood health directly improve the quality of life and, in addition, have multiplier effects, producing sustained population and economic gains in poor countries. We suggest how contemporary global institutions shaping the development, pricing and distribution of...

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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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