greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

We study the rise in marriages between residents of HK and China following the handover of HK to China in 1997. Cross … China and HK, marriages of HK men with Mainland women outnumbered those of HK women with mainland men sevenfold. Following …

satiation. This, despite that the social costs of innovation are second order compared to their social benefits. Multiple … savings reduces interest rates, which boosts the rate of innovation. When TFP grows exogenously and labor supply is …

This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new … homogenous R&D-based knowledge production function by introducing different types of innovation investments (R&D and technology … acquisition) for different sets of companies. Using the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) dataset comprising more than 3000 …

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan … culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

Development. We examine the role of financial constraints in SME growth, with emphasis on business cycles and credit access. We …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …