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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index: A new employment series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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A fair share: Burden-sharing preferences in the United States and China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - 2010

Using a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic burden of decreasing CO2 emissions in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about their preferences for four burden-sharing rules to reduce CO2 emissions...

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Research network position and innovative performance: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry

McKelvey, Maureen; Rake, Bastian - 2012

This paper explores how and why collaboration with different types of partners and the position within a research network can affect firms' innovative performance in terms of product innovations. A detailed empirical analysis is carried out in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. This...

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Determinants of pharmaceutical innovation: The role of technological opportunities revisited

Rake, Bastian - 2012

Recent empirical contributions emphasize the importance of (potential) market size for the development of new pharmaceuticals. At the same time many scholars point out the importance of of scientific advances for the industry's R&D activities. Against this background I analyze the relationship...

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The relationship among innovative output, productivity, and profitability: a test comparing USPTO and EPO data

Santarelli, Enrico; Lotti, Francesca - 2007

The aim of this paper is to test whether patent-based indicators are still reliable measures of innovativeness in light of organizational changes in the field of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and the regulatory reforms already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and...

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Cultural effects on inbound tourism into the USA: a gravity approach

Vietze, Christoph - 2008

In this paper we discuss the effects of cultural and particular religious factors on tourist flows into the USA as the … variables, people from countries with the same language (English) and the same high governmental rankings like the USA, travel … more into the USA for holiday than people from other countries. Above all, we have clear and stable evidence that tourists …

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EU-US differences in the size of R&D intensive firms: do they explain the overall R&D intensity gap?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Brandsma, Andries - 2008

The average firm size of the top R&D investors among US-based companies is smaller than that of the EU-based firms. Does this help to explain why the US has a greater R&D intensity, or is the higher firm size in the EU, just as its lower R&D intensity, determined by the sectors in which the top...

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Explaining institutional change: Why elected politicians implement direct democracy

Hugh-Jones, David - 2008

In existing models of direct democratic institutions, the median voter benefits, but representative politicians are harmed since their policy choices can be overridden. This is a puzzle, since representative politicians were instrumental in creating these institutions. I build a model of direct...

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Financial signalling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009

External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our...

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Habakkuk revisited: a history friendly model of American and British technology in the nineteenth century

Fontana, Roberto; Guerzoni, Marco; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2008

This paper presents a History Friendly Model which addresses the issue of the bifurcation in technological styles" between US and Britain during the nineteenth century. The model aims at gaining a better understanding of the micro-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in...

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