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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Gains and Pains from Contract Research : A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Grimpe, Christoph; Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choicebetween internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been amajor challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative products or processes.While research on R&D...

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Motives for Innovation Co-operation Evidence from theCanadian Survey of Innovation

Schmidt Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects …. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation … activities,which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from theCanadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find …

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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMES: Creation of Knowledge but no Creation of Value

Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies

Ács, Zoltán; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt

Acs, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm : First Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings...

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Informal Employment Relationships and LaborMarket Segmentation in Transition Economies:Evidence from Ukraine

Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of alack of appropriate data. A new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian LongitudinalMonitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some empirical evidence on informalemployment in Ukraine and the...

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International Cooperation on Innovation : Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we investigate the factors that lead firms to cooperate withpartners from foreign countries on innovation … activities. Portuguese and Germandata from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us tocompare innovation …

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Mitarbeiteranreizsysteme und Innovationserfolg

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

Wir diskutieren die Faktoren für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung eines Systems desbetrieblichen Vorschlagswesens und anderer Maßnahmen zur Stimulierung desInnovationserfolgs. Im Anschluss wird die Wirkung des betrieblichenVorschlagswesens auf den Innovationserfolg empirisch überprüft....

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