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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

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 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 …

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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital

Fassio, Claudio - 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 … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

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Innovation and Smes Patent Propensity in Korea

Han, Junghee - 2015

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

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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...

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Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – an Experimental Study

Grözinger, Nicola - 2020

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...

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