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Sinking or swimming in the cluster labor pool? : a firm-specific analysis of the effect of specialized labour
Grashof, Nils - 2020
Human resources are a key factor for firm success, particularly nowadays when most industrial economies face an increasing shortage of qualified labour. With their pooled labour markets, regional clusters have been shown to be a preferable location for firms in order to satisfy their demand for...
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Human capital diversity and product innovation : a micro-level analysis
Söllner, René - 2010
; Innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962534
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Role of human resource practices in absorptive capacity and R&D cooperation
Roy, Ipsita - 2015
important conditions for R&D cooperation and innovation. I begin by providing a "beyond-R&D" definition of absorptive capacity … cooperative R&D on incremental product, process and radical innovation. Employing the IAB Establishment Panel Survey on about 1200 … German innovation-based establishments during 2007-2011, findings demonstrate that adoption of employment practices …
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Actor fluidity and knowledge persistence in regional inventor networks
Fritsch, Michael; Zöllner, Moritz - 2018
knowledge of new inventors effect the performance of regional innovation systems (RIS). The results suggest that the knowledge … considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks … using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates we analyze how the size and structure of a …
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Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success
Cantner, Uwe (contributor); Göthner, Maximilian (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003553613
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Local Innovation Systems and Benchmarking
Cantner, Uwe (contributor) - 2008
knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and …This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003724181
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Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation
Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014
We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education … different indicators for these types of knowledge, the strongest effects are found for the number of professors, followed by the … the regional knowledge stock than the number of students that is most important for the emergence of innovative stat-ups. …
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Occupational choice and social contacts across regions
Bauernschuster, Stefan (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the interconnectedness of social contacts, we compare rural and agglomerated areas. A smaller community size in rural areas generates greater network closure. Agents' neighborhoods are more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770448
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Technology, outsourcing, and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Exploring the industry dimension
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2010
It has become common within the literature of skill-biased technological change to look at technologies, as well as their impact on the demand for labor as homogeneous across industries. This paper challenges this view. Using a linked employer-employee panel of Germany differentiated by...
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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?
Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes people’s occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
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