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Bozkaya, Ant; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms....

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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Lerner, Josh; Schoar, Antoinette; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper documents the role of angel funding for the growth, survival, and access to follow-on funding of high-growth start-up firms. We use a regression discontinuity approach to control for unobserved heterogeneity between firms that obtain funding and those that do not. This technique...

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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

Hellmann, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

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Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank

Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R.; Fong, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Data availability is arguably the greatest impediment to advancing the science of science and innovation policy and … very flexible sources of data for serious research on many issues in the study of organizations in innovation systems in …

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Financing Innovation

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This … related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects … innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs. …

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Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions

Serrano, Carlos J.; Åstebro, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper studies the effect of business partners on the commercialization of nvention based ventures, and it assesses the relative importance of partners' human and social capital on commercialization outcomes. Projects run by partnerships were five times more likely to reach...

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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy

Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...

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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …

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Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Strange, William C.; Rosenthal, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment influences the choices of entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial success influences the local economy. Yet modern urban economics has paid relatively little attention to entrepreneurs. This...

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Movement of Star Scientists and Engineers and High-Tech Firm Entry

Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper analyzes the effects of top nanoscale scientists on industry entry in the comparative context of 5 major areas of science and technology, extending the concept of star scientist to all areas of science and technology. The results for nanotechnology are replicated using the...

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