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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship
Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499576
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Taking the leap : the determinants of entrepreneurs hiring their first employee
Fairlie, Robert W.; Miranda, Javier - 2016
Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring … Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through Entrepreneurship (GATE) experiment are used to provide some of the first … largest random experiment providing entrepreneurship training in the United States ever conducted, we do not find evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447517
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The learning process and technological change in wind power : evidence from China's CDM wind project
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257289
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Technology transfer in global value chains
Sampson, Thomas - 2022
Firm-to-firm relationships in global value chains create opportunities for North-South technology diffusion. This paper studies technology transfer in value chains when contracts are incomplete and input production technologies are imperfectly excludable. The paper introduces a new taxonomy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803687
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Why trade when you can transfer the technology : revisiting smith and ricardo
Acharyya, Rajat; Marjit, Sugata - 2021
This paper explores the possibility of international technology transfer in lieu of trade in a model with absolute and comparative advantage. Countries having absolute advantage in producing a good may offer that technology to a possible trading partner against a fee and both the countries might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584221
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Technology transfer and early industrial development : evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance
Giorcelli, Michela; Li, Bo - 2022
This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between 1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the "156 Projects" in China for building technologically advanced industrial facilities. We exploit idiosyncratic delays in project...
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Do management practices matter in further education?
McNally, Sandra; Schmidt, Luis; Valero, Anna - 2022
Further Education colleges are a key way in which 16-19 year olds acquire skills in the UK (much like US Community Colleges), especially those from low income backgrounds. Yet, little is known about what could improve performance in these institutions. We design and conduct the world’s first...
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Peer effects and the gender gap in corporate leadership : evidence from MBA students
Hampole, Menaka; Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024
Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social connections in women's career advancement. We investigate whether access to a larger share of female peers in business school affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050800
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International energy technology transfers for climate change mitigation : what, who, how, why, when, where, how much and the implications for international institutional architectu...
Brewer, Thomas L. (contributor) - 2008
The goal of the paper is to expand and refine the international technology transfer negotiating and analytic agendas and to reframe the issues. The paper presents concepts, indicators, illustrations and data that identify and measure international transfers of energy technologies that can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763016
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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries
Yang, Lei (contributor); Maskus, Keith E. (contributor) - 2008
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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