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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

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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Social capital and the innovative performance of Italian provinces

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Gagliardi, Luisa; Percoco, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature due to the lack of consensus on the most … variable analysis makes it possible to identify clear causal links between social capital and innovation, suggesting that …

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The urban wage growth premium: sorting or learning?

D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper is concerned with the urban wage premium and addresses two central issues about which the field has not yet reached a consensus. First, the extent to which sorting of high ability individuals into urban areas explains the urban wage premium. Second, whether workers receive this wage...

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The urban wage growth premium: sorting or learning?

D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper is concerned with the urban wage premium and addresses two central issues about which the field has not yet reached a consensus: first, the extent to which sorting of high ability individuals into urban areas explains the urban wage premium and second, whether workers receive this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126674

THE EFFECTS OF UNIONS ON ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE, INVESTMENT AND EMPLOYMENT: EVIDENCE FROM WIRS

MACHIN, S.; WADHWANI, S. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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The weightless economy in economic development

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Government policies to support R&D are predicated on empirical evidence of R&D "spillovers" between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a general...

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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a...

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Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies

Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Martin, Ralf; Mohnen, Myra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

How much should governments subsidize the development of new clean technologies? We use patent citation data to … production and transportation. We introduce a new methodology that takes into account the whole history of patent citations to … capture the indirect knowledge spillovers generated by patents. We find that conditional on a wide range of potential …

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