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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation
Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of … ventures in the innovation process relative to more traditional alternatives such as academia and established private … generate predictions related to the value and impact of startup innovation. We then explore these predictions using patents …
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FinTech, BigTech, and the Future of Banks
Stulz, René M. - 2019
Banks are unique in that they combine the production of liquid claims with loans. They can replicate most of what FinTech firms can do, but FinTech firms benefit from an uneven playing field in that they are less regulated than banks. The uneven playing field enables non-bank FinTech firms to...
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Quantum Economic Advantage
Bova, Francesco; Goldfarb, Avi; Melko, Roger G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A quantum computer exhibits a quantum advantage when it can perform a calculation that a classical computer is unable to complete. It follows that a company with a quantum computer would be a monopolist in the market for solving such a calculation if its only competitor was a company with a...
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What is the Business of Business?
Nilsson, Andreas - 2017
This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455177
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The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs
Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2017
Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the...
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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2008
to benefit innovation more than extrinsic motives such as pay …
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Examining the Incidence of Downsizing and Its Effect on Establishment Performance
Cappelli, Peter - 2000
The interest in examining job security and job stability has been driven in part by the phenomenon of downsizing. The … distinctiveness of downsizing, as opposed to more traditional layoffs, is that the job cuts do not necessarily appear to be driven by … shortfalls in demand but instead appear to be driven by the search for operating efficiencies. Despite the interest in downsizing …
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Downsizing and Productivity Growth : Myth or Reality?
Baily, Martin Neil - 1994
by the apparently pervasive downsizing over this period. Aggregate evidence clearly shows falling employment accompanying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474184
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The Economic Performance of Survivors after Layoffs : A Plant-Level Study
Ichniowski, Casey - 1986
This study tests for the empirical relationship between layoffs and the economic performance of workers who remain after the layoffs. Previous studies performed in laboratory settings have often found increases in the efficiency of workers after layoffs. This analysis is the first to test for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477270
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Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia
Khanna, Gaurav - 2019
We investigate the effects of job displacement, as a result of mass-layoffs, on criminal arrests using a novel matched employer-employee-crime dataset in Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate earnings losses, and an increased likelihood of being arrested for both the displaced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480258