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Money for Something : The Links between Research Funding and Innovation
Glennon, Britta - 2018
measured by patents …
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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent - 2015
almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016346
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The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics : A Review Towards a New View
Hessels, Jolanda - 2017
Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated. It is moreover also because there is no unified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943715
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Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures : The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2011
popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish …-in-difference estimation methods. Our main findings are that (i) program participation effects are instant for annual patent applications and … that were patent active prior to joining the RJV and that there are no statistically significant effect for large firms …
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Economic Incentives and the Quality of Return Migrant Scholars : The Impact of China's Thousand Young Talents Program
Jia, Ning - 2020
We study the effect of the Thousand Young Talents Program (TYTP) on the academic quality of return migrant scientists to China. Using a unique dataset of the top Chinese mathematics departments' new hires, we find that the program leads to considerable increases in measures of their educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838477
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Skills, Tasks, and Complexity
Gersbach, Hans - 2019
We introduce a new task-based framework to describe production. It focuses on the fact that certain tasks are too complex for many workers to perform. In such an environment, the relationship between wages of workers may significantly differ from their relative productivities. The labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859283
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Worker-Level and Firm-Level Effects of a Wage Subsidy Program for Highly Educated Labor : Evidence from Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2015
We study the effects of a Danish wage subsidy program for highly educated workers on the labor market outcomes of the persons participating in the program and on the performance of the firms that hired these subsidized workers. Using data on the population of program participants, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016314
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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...
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What Drives Innovation? Lessons from Covid-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaule, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R&D activity—measured by clinical trials—typically follows the 'law of diminishing efforts': i.e. the elasticity of R&D...
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Government Subsidies as a Risk-Sharing Policy Tool in Innovation Investment
Lu, Hao; De Fuentes, Claudia; Milla, Joniada; Ahmadi, Soheil - 2022
Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an overarching theoretical model to explain the conditions under which government subsidies create positive additionalities on private R&D investment. In this paper, we present a...
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