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We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century …. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …
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Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
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, particularly of university scientists, is positively related to innovation; (vi) there are many university spin-offs but these are …
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The high-tech sector is increasingly concentrated in a small number of expensive cities, with the top ten cities in "Computer Science", "Semiconductors" and "Biology and Chemistry", accounting for 70%, 79% and 59% of inventors, respectively. Why do inventors tend to locate near other inventors...
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Using data from over 28,000 innovators within a firm, we study how network position affects innovation, measured by the … may explain the reduced quality of innovation during remote work found in prior literature. …
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manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 …' likelihood to participate in cooperation with other organizations when conducting innovation activities. These determinants are … cooperation in innovation. The findings indicate possible appropriate (or non-appropriate) policy strategies to be applied …
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This paper presents direct evidence on how firms' innovation is affected by access to knowledgeable labor through co … labor within the network increases innovation. …
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Canadian immigrants to innovation is, in large part, explained by the low employment rates of Canadian STEM-educated immigrants …
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incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous … improving efficiency. -- Process innovation ; managerial incentives ; efficiency ; natural experiment …
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Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with...
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