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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516448
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ICT and resilience in times of crisis : evidence from cross-country micro moments data
Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - 2017
ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701679
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Shacklean uncertainty and cultural embeddedness as innovation constraints in the UK
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017
We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur's innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119250
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Properties of knowledge base and firm survival : evidence from a sample of French manufacturing firms
Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Quatraro, Francesco - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 80 (2013) 8, pp. 1469-1483
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206061
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Did the global financial crisis impact firms' innovation performance? : the role of internal and external knowledge capabilities in high and low tech inustries
Zouaghi, Ferdaous; Sánchez, Mercedes; Garcia Martinez, … - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 132 (2018), pp. 92-104
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959812
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How does the ambidexterity of technological learning routine affect firm innovation performance within industrial clusters? : the moderating effects of knowledge attributes
Guo, Jingjing; Guo, Bin; Zhou, Jianghua; Wu, Xiaobo - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 155 (2020), pp. 1-15
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Employment growth in newly established firms : is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?
Müller, Kathrin - 2009
investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge affects a start-up's employment growth. The depreciation of … academic knowledge is investigated by quantifying the effect of the time period which elapses after the founder has left …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881345
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Poaching and firm-sponsored training : first clean evidence
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013
A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751718
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University spinoffs and the “performance premium”
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - 2013
The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696949
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445026