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Exploring the RelationshipBetween Scientist Human Capitaland Firm Performance: The Case of Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurs in the SBIR Program
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim> - 2007
Do academic scientists bring valuable human capital to the companies they found or join? If so, what are the particular skills that compose their human capital and how are these skills related to firm performance? This paper examines these questions using a particular group of academic...
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Working life and human capital investment: Causal evidence from pension reform
Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019
In this paper we present a life-cycle model with human capital investment during working life through training and provide a novel empirical test of human capital theory. Using a sizable pension reform which shifts the retirement age between two adjacent cohorts by three years, we document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290343
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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Dovern-Pinger, Pia Rosina; … - 2019
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...
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Measuring the Spillovers of Venture Capital
Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017
We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932911
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Blue Amazon Management System (SisGAAz): Sovereignty, surveillance and defense of the Brazilian jurisdictional waters
Andrade, Israel de Oliveira; Rocha, Antonio Jorge Ramalho da - 2021
Brazil is a country with a maritime vocation, whose development is intrinsically associated with the sea. The Brazilian coast and jurisdictional waters' extension constitute a challenge on themselves to the national defense. The presence of fundamental potentialities for the country, such as...
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Science, technology and innovation in the strategic programs of the Brazilian Navy
Andrade, Israel de Oliveira; Carpes, Mariana; Franco, … - 2022
makes it vital to undertake efforts and investments in the area of science, technology, and innovation, especially in … interrelation between national defense and science, technology and innovation, the general characteristics of the Navy's main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548584
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Impacts of public procurement on business R&D efforts: The Brazilian case
Rauen, Andre Tortato; Souza de Paiva, Bianca - 2019
of the sample type, there was no impact on public procurement on the technology efforts of suppliers (considering the … technology intensity approach). However, we found an unexpected impact on suppliers' total personnel (PO). Our results show that … other words, without a strong PPI program, there will be no positive outcome in terms of technology development. Public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234256
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Bargaining failure and freedom to operate: Re-evaluating the effect of patents on cumulative innovation
Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the patent universe in its technological and economic variety. We introduce a novel instrumental variable for patent invalidation that exploits personnel scarcity in post-grant...
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"No Man is an Island": An Empirical Study on Team Formation and Performance
Allocca, Alessandra - 2023
-prize-winning scientific organization with self-formed teams, first, I uncover new evidence on team formation and performance. Then, I develop … a structural model to i) estimate which teams perform better controlling for self-formation and ii) evaluate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467836
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Patents, freedom to operate, and follow-on innovation: Evidence from post-grant opposition
Gäßler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan; von … - 2024
We study the blocking effect of patents on follow-on innovation by others. We posit that follow-on innovation requires freedom to operate (FTO), which firms typically obtain through a license from the patentee holding the original innovation. Where licensing fails, follow-on innovation is...
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