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Do inventors talk to strangers? : on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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Filling the gap : the consequences of collaborator loss in corporate R&D
Poege, Felix; Gäßler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022
We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414730
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Integrated macroeconomic production function for open economies : a new Schumpeterian Solow model for globalization
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2016
investment or international technology spillovers. This study is a major contribution to innovation, trade, FDI and growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452235
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To be born is not enough : the key role of innovative startups
Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452416
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The link between R&D, innovation and productivity : are micro firms different?
Baumann, Julian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2016
We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452418
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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?
Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019
In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...
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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 … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986036
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022425
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Embodied and disembodied technological change : the sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction
Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019
This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022748
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Migration, innovation, and growth: an African story?
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Tani, Massimiliano - 2019
, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period 2011-2016 sourced from the World Bank …'s Enterprise Survey, we find that short-term mobility positively contributes to innovation, making this a potentially effective …
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