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We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...
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-frequency trading. The robust conclusion is that private innovation incentives are much smaller than the social incentives, especially …
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Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received … for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation …
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We study why high-priced acquisitions of entrants by an incumbent do not necessarily stimulate more innovation and …
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from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of …
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effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …
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This paper examines the impact of government-sponsored venture capitalists (GVCs) on the success of enterprises. Using international enterprise-level data, we identify a surprising non-monotonicity in the effect of GVC on the likelihood of exit via initial public offerings (IPOs) or third party...
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It is important to understand the factors that influence a country's transition from the production of low-quality to … high-quality products since the production of high-quality goods is often viewed as a pre-condition for export success and … at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …
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public policy objectives, including value-creation, innovation, and competition. A number of novel data-collection methods …, including value-creation, as measured by the likelihood and size of IPOs and M&As, and innovation, as measured by patents. It is … higher quality threshold for investment than subsidized venture capitalists, or whether it arises from a treatment effect in …
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agenda to integrate major research streams treating innovation as an object of economic analysis into our standard models … outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary …
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