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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility : an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...
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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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Spillover effects of black teachers on white teachers' racial competency : mixed methods evidence from North Carolina
Gershenson, Seth; Lindsay, Constance A.; Papageorge, … - 2023
The US teaching force remains disproportionately white while the student body grows more diverse. It is therefore important to understand how and under what conditions white teachers learn racial competency. This study applies a mixed-methods approach to investigate the hypothesis that Black...
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The effect of high-tech clusters on the productivity of top inventors
Moretti, Enrico - 2019
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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Public funding and corporate innovation
Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017
, particularly of university scientists, is positively related to innovation; (vi) there are many university spin-offs but these are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772302
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (KSTE+I) approach and the advent of AI technologies : evidence from the European regions
D'Alessandro, Francesco; Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, … - 2024
In this paper we integrate the insights of the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (KSTE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046050
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor);  … - 2008
innovation, especially for firms further from the frontier, and that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and … international trade are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of … competition on innovation. There is partial support for the hypothesis that firms in a more pro-business environment invest more …
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Innovation, firm survival and productivity: the state of the art
Uğur, Mehmet; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020
innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …
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Survival, growth, and interfirm collaboration of start-up companies in high-technology industries : a case study of Upper Bavaria
Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - 2001
sectors with a greater proportion of cooperating firms have a greater growth rate. The innovation activities however do hardly … entrepreneurs and according to specific sector conditions should not be treated as equivalent to innovation networks for which our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403326
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Knowledge spillovers, ICT and productivity growth
Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cécilia - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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