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Innovation and R&D investments by leveraged buyout companies in times of crisis

Bertoni, Fabio; Nadant, Anne-Laure Le; Perdreau, Frédéric - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 2, pp. 856-864

We study innovation and R&D investments made from 2008 to 2010 by UK companies that were the targets of leveraged … buyout (LBO) in previous years. We find that overall, LBO companies do not exhibit lower innovation and R&D investments than … non-LBO companies during the crisis, with other things being equal. However, innovation and R&D investments decline …

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Global Collaborative Patents

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...

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Innovativeness of Exporting firms in a Developing Country: The Case of Tunisia

Rahmouni, Mohieddine - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 2, pp. 914-930

article is dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. In particular, it … Probit models) and non-parametrical regression trees on the results of the first community innovation survey in Tunisia. We … find that the innovation behavior of the three categories of firms is strongly contrasted. Our results show firms that …

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Identifying Leadership Skills Required in the Digital Age

Klus, Milan Frederik; Müller, Julia - 2020

How should executives lead organisations and their employees in an increasingly digitalized business environment and what skills are needed to succeed? Although the evolution of digital technologies considerably changes working environments in organisations and creates new challenges for...

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Identifying Leadership Skills Required in the Digital Age

Klus, Milan - 2020

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry

Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2023

In recent decades, Chinese researchers have become preeminent contributors to the scientific enterprise, as reflected by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential to push forward the global frontier, but mere production...

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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The Role of Human Capital in Structural Change and Growth in an Open Economy: Innovative and Absorptive Capacity Effects

Bye, Brita; Faehn, Taran - 2021

Since the financial crisis in 2008, slow growth has riddled Europe and the Covid-19 pandemic is amplifying the challenge. Promoting economic growth and transforming to a more knowledge-based industrial structure will be high on the agenda for the coming decades. We study how more and better...

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Aggregate evidence of localized academic knowledge transfer in the U.S.

Stuen, Eric T. - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 2, pp. 1468-1478

-1999, suggesting that academic research was becoming more important to innovation in the 1990s. However, the volume of academic …

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