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This paper examines how local-level policies can strengthen entrepreneurship and innovation in the region of … focus are on skills development, entrepreneurship development and knowledge exchange for local economic development. A …
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This report evaluates youth entrepreneurship policies in Portugal amid the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on insights from …
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Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that the composition of the platform's 'beta testers' on the day a new product is launched has a systematic and persistent impact on the venture's success. Specifically, we use word embedding methods to...
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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Migration outflows, especially of young people, may deprive an economy of entrepreneurial energy and innovative ideas. We exploit exogenous variation in emigration from Italian local labor markets to show that between 2008 and 2015 larger emigration flows reduced firm creation. The decline...
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Recent work highlights a falling entry rate of new firms and a rising market share of large firms in the United States. To understand how these changing firm demographics have affected growth, we decompose productivity growth into the firms doing the innovating. We trace how much each firm...
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We follow the careers 1981-2004 of 5401 star scientists listed in ISI HighlyCitedSM as most highly cited by their peers. Their number in a US region or a top-25 science and technology (S&T) country significantly increases the probability of firm entry in the S&T field in which they are working....
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IPR---affect the investment in knowledge capital when contracts are not enforceable. These barriers lower the competition … for human capital and reduce the incentive to accumulate knowledge. We show in a dynamic general equilibrium model that …
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How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … threat spurs innovation incentives in sectors close to the technological frontier--successful innovation allows incumbents to … prevent entry. In laggard sectors it discourages innovation--increased entry threat reduces incumbents' expected rents from …
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Interest in the role of entrepreneurial entry in innovation raises the question of the extent to which tax policy … innovative entrepreneurs confounds interpreting this specification. Using education as a measure of potential for innovation, we …
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