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The scientific output of a database on commercialized patents
Svensson, Roger - 2020
commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
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Unraveling the role of public researcher mobility for industrial innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - 2011
We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by...
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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2011
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...
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Global talent flows
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...
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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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Hierarchies, the small firm effect, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Swedish microdata
Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - 2013
enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much stronger … for business creation than for jobswitching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. However … fewer layers having a broader range of skills. -- entrepreneurship ; employee mobility ; hierarchy, rank, small firm effect …
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Foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship : blessing or curse?
Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul … - 2013
between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …
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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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