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economy, community-based social innovation and well-being. While supporting this emphasis, we see a tendency to neglect …
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New business formation is a key driver of regional transformation and development. While we know that a region’s attractiveness for new businesses depends on its resources, infrastructure, and human capital, we know little about the role of local business networks in promoting or impeding the...
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Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what …
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Research suggests that public subsidies for newly founded firms have a positive effect on follow-on financing, in particular, Venture Capital (VC). This study differentiates between Government VC, Independent VC, Corporate VC, and Business Angels and shows that public subsidies are not relevant...
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This paper seeks to empirically identify factors that influence the probability of being a fast growing firm in Eastern and Western Germany. Descriptive analyses have shown that most firms experience only small positive or negative employment growth or stagnate over time. The job generation...
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Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …
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otherwise visible to society. We develop a structural model of initial and follow-on innovation to determine the effects of such … a shift in disclosure on overall welfare in industries characterized by cumulative innovation. We find that while … significant decline in follow-on innovation. …
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We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …
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This paper is concerned with exploring the implications of replicability issues over the medical innovation process … institution governing the testing effort. Research and innovation policy implications are discussed. …
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product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …
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