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Job Creation and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing

Armington, Catherine; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2003

An important new literature on gross employment flows has produced a great outpouring of stylized facts. In this paper we examine one aspect of this literature through the lens of dynamic models and theories of industrial evolution. We extend the Davis and Haltiwanger methodology for analysis of...

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The Missing Link

Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link...

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Regional Innovation in the US over Space and Time

Acs, Zoltán J.; Varga, Attila; Anselin, Luc - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2003

consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building … on a recently developed cross sectional-time series data set of US innovation, private and university research and high …

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Recent developments in the economics of of science and innovation

Link, Albert N. (ed.); Antonelli, Cristiano (contributor) - 2014

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …

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The Impact of Geographic Differences inHuman Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

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Intellectual Property Protection Mechanisms in Research Partnerships

Hertzfeld, Henry R.; Link, Albert N.; Vonortas, Nicholas S. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

A set of U.S.-based companies is investigated regarding the effectiveness of intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) in the formation of research partnerships. Patents are the most frequently used IPPM to protect both background and foreground knowledge in partnerships. Other IPPMs...

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