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implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers' knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
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implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405807
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
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We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...
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An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013060
We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979425
A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...
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Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state …-wide knowledge flows. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that introducing the Bavarian-wide cluster policy increased … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …
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–64 years old. A more detailed analysis of the working-age distribution suggests that startups in knowledge-based (high …
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