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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …
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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership
Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024
We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights. First, average patent importance declined from...
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Innovation als Erfolgsfaktor der deutschen Industrie? Der Beitrag von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen zu Beschäftigung und Exporten
Rammer, Christian; Peters, Bettina - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 1, pp. 13-36
(Community Innovation Surveys) wird gezeigt, dass die deutsche Industrie eine überdurchschnittlich starke Innovationsorientierung …This article investigates to what extent innovation has contributed to the development of employment growth and … exporting in German manufacturing since the beginning of 2000. Using firm-level data from the Community Innovation Surveys in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539521
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Innovation als Erfolgsfaktor der deutschen Industrie? : der Beitrag von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen zu Beschäftigung und Exporten
Rammer, Christian; Peters, Bettina - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 1, pp. 13-35
(Community Innovation Surveys) wird gezeigt, dass die deutsche Industrie eine überdurchschnittlich starke Innovationsorientierung …This article investigates to what extent innovation has contributed to the development of employment growth and … exporting in German manufacturing since the beginning of 2000. Using firm-level data from the Community Innovation Surveys in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300146
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Working from home around the world
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022
innovation. …
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The evolution of work from home
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2023
discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339132
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Remote work across jobs, companies, and space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229411
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Management as a technology?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486495
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Turbulence, firm decentralization and growth in bad times
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641565
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What drives differences in management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
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