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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822844
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831977
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Artificial Intelligence and Reduced Smes' Business Risks. A Dynamic Capabilities Analysis During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was developed to capture the use of AI applications in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083873
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Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022
Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013403602
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Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses
Belitski, Maksim; Günther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2022
The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087665
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2015
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749897
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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?
Baumann, Julian - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999002
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029129
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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 … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249110
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Creative Disruption : Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
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