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China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …
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This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …
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automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …
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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...
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In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...
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We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such … patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is …
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We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
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1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …
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autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistentand more erratic. Moreover, our results … suggest that firm and market characteristics play adistinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of different age …
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