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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength
Peters, Bettina - 2016
This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...
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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution
Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018
We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?
Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of …
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Innovation in Israel 1968-97 : A Comparative Analysis Using Patent Data
Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1999
the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
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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The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors
Moretti, Enrico - 2019
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The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment
Jia, Jian - 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the European Union in May 2018. We study its short-run impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects on EU ventures, relative to their US counterparts. The negative...
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Tech Clusters
Kerr, William R. - 2020
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …
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Prices of High-Tech Products, Mismeasurement, and Pace of Innovation
Byrne, David - 2017
of innovation, our results suggest that innovation in the tech sector has been more rapid than the rate that would be … of innovation in high-tech sectors has been more rapid than indicated by official statistics, then it is perhaps even …
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