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Innovation and the Determinants of Firm Survival

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

While many firms compete through the development of new technologies and products, it is well known that new-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies consistently find a negative association between...

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …'s academic credentials are positively related with propensity to patent. From the findings, we can conclude that patenting …

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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...

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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...

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The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

's propensity to apply for a patent, (2) the number of patent applications (intensive margin) and (3) the firm's ability to patent …

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

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Innovation, Productivity, and Training

Dostie, Benoit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The firm's stock of human capital is an important determinant of its ability to innovate. As such, any increase in this stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms' human capital investments and innovation performance,...

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Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector

Welfens, Paul J. J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The innovative approach presented introduces a modified neoclassical growth model which includes a new bias of technological progress in a quasi-endogenous growth model in which part of labor is used in the research & development sector. The combination of a macroeconomic production function and...

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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms

Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...

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