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A matter of life and death : innovation and firm survival

Cefis, Elena (contributor); Marsili, Orietta (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The … demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register … population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the Community Innovation Survey. Through estimation of a parametric …

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Financial fragility and growth dynamics of Italian business firms

Bottazzi, Giulio (contributor); Secchi, Angelo (contributor) - 2006

This work explores a number of properties investigated in the empirical literature on firm size and growth dynamics: (i) the distribution and the autoregressive structure of firm size; (ii) the existence of size-growth scaling relationships; (iii) the distribution and the autoregressive structure...

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Weird ties? : Growth, cycles and firm dynamics in an agent-based model with financial-market imperfections

Napoletano, Mauro; Delli Gatti, Domenico; Fagiolo, Giorgio - 2005

This paper studies how the interplay between technological shocks and financial variables shapes the properties of macroeconomic dynamics. Most of the existing literature has based the analysis of aggregate macroeconomic regularities on the representative agent hypothesis (RAH). However, recent...

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Do liquidity constraints matter in explaining firm size and growth? : Some evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry

Fagiolo, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2004

The paper investigates whether liquidity constraints affect firm size and growth dynamics using a large longitudinal sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We run standard panel-data Gibrat regressions, suitably expanded to take into account liquidity constraints (proxied by cash flow scaled by...

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Does spatial disaggregation matter in job creation and destruction flows?

Cefis, Elena (contributor); Gabriele, Roberto (contributor) - 2005

The paper investigates the changes in job creation and destruction flows considering a very disaggregate level of analysis. If institutional setup plays a more important role compared to other factors, than at lower levels of aggregation we should observe that job flows regularities are in line...

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Technological diversification and strategic alliances

Giuri, Paola (contributor); Hagedoorn, John (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Exploitation, exploration and innovation in a model of endogenous growth with locally interacting agents

Fagiolo, Giorgio (contributor); Dosi, Giovanni (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

example in which more rational agents systematically perform worse than less rational ones. -- Innovation ; Endogenous Growth …

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The birth of a new industry : entry by start-ups and the drivers of firm growth ; the case of encryption software

Giarratana, Marco S. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

firm competitive advantages. This work shows that innovation and product differentiation, along with investments in co … founders. -- Entry ; Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Software …

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Innovation and standards in clinical practice : the case of HIV treatments

Merito, Monica (contributor); Bonaccorsi, Andrea (contributor) - 2005

The goal of this study was to analyze the emergence of treatment standards associated with the adoption of anti-HIV drug innovations in the empirical setting of Italian clinical practice. Due to the rapid pace of technological change and the initial uncertainty concerning capabilities and...

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Trademarks as an indicator of innovation and industrial change

Mendonça, Sandro (contributor); … - 2004

As innovation becomes an ever more central issue for the development of firms and world economies, so the need for … capturing relevant aspects of innovation phenomena and the process of industrial change. We propose trademarks as a … complementary indicator in the portfolio of available empirical tools of innovation studies and industrial dynamics. Our empirical …

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