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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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Innovation and SMEs patent propensity in Korea
Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - 2015
This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …'s academic credentials are positively related with propensity to patent. From the findings, we can conclude that patenting …
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Profit taxation, R&D spending, and innovation
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; … - 2021
We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the municipal business tax rate over the period 1987-2013 for...
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Unraveling the role of public researcher mobility for industrial innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - 2011
1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent …
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Female migration and native marital stability : insights from Italy
Vignoli, Daniele; Venturini, Alessandra; Pirani, Elena - 2015
In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting marital disruption on data from the nationally –...
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Human resources and innovation : total factor productivity and foreign human capital
Fassio, Claudio; Kalantaryan, Sona; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries - France, Germany and the United Kingdom - in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research, which...
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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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Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach - soliciting a particular technology - or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research...
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Breakthroughs, backlashes and Artificial General Intelligence : an extended real options approach
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2022
Breakthroughs and backlashes have marked progress in the development and diffusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These shocks make the investment in developing an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) subject to considerable uncertainty. This paper applies a real options model, extended to...
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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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