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Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries and technology fields in an economy. Industrial and trade policies, by contrast, tend to favor economic specialization through the promotion of selected sectors. In this paper...
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This paper investigates empirically whether the relation between finance and growth depends on a specific type of financing. I construct a novel panel data set for 34 high income countries over the time period from 1995 to 2014 based on financial accounts data. It allows distinguishing between...
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on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of … innovating firms introduced innovations between 1993 and 1995 that would not have been developed without public research. These … ability to absorb the findings of public research and turn them into innovations. Contrary to the widely held opinion that …
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innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … knowledge into innovations that bring economic success. …
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In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...
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The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the enterprise sector. Based on a survey of public research units in natural sciences and engineering in Germany, we analyse the determinants of firm contacts established via the...
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This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in individual-level use of technologies between 2011...
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The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which postulates a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...
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Technologietransfer in Entwicklungsländer verbunden sind. Das Exportgeschäft dient als Geisel im Sinne von O. Williamson, die dazu dient …
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