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The geography and the effect of creative people in Germany

Fritsch, Michael - 2007

This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative oc-cupation in Germany. The population share of the Creative Class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places and rural regions may also have a considerable proportion of...

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Creative class and regional growth: empirical evidence from eight European countries

Boschma, Ron A.; Fritsch, Michael - 2007

We analyze the regional distribution and the effect of people in creative occupations based on data for more than 450 regions in eight European countries. The geographic distribution of the creative class is highly uneven. The creative class is not attracted to highly urbanized regions per se,...

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Creativity and industrial cities: a case study of Baltimore

Ács, Zoltán J.; Megyesi, Monika I. - 2007

Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate po-licy. Creative metropolises base … metropolises. Using data from the US Census Bureau and research on creativity measures, this case study concludes that Baltimore …

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Creativity, analytical skills, personality traits, and innovation game behavior in the lab: An experiment

Bäker, Agnes; Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, … - 2011

&D or patent data. This research, however, is only poorly informed about the psychological tradition of creativity research …. Our study is an attempt to experimentally collect behavioral data revealing in how far creativity, analytical skills … participants' performance in the innovation games is in fact related to their creativity, risk tolerance and self-control. Other …

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Role of human resource practices in absorptive capacity and R&D cooperation

Roy, Ipsita - 2015

While significant attention is given to the concept of absorptive capacity as a source of competitive advantage in firms, a major drawback exists in the way it is unidimensionally defined in micro-level analysis. The paper addresses this limitation and reconceptualizes absorptive capacity as a...

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No place like home? . location choice and firm survival after forced relocation in the German machine tool industry

Buenstorf, Guido; Guenther, Christina - 2007

We study location choices and firm performance in the German machine tool industry, focusing on the forced migration of East German firms after World War II. Our analysis of location choices supports earlier findings that industry agglomerations attract further entrants. Relocating firms...

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Creating strategic advantage through entrepreneurial governance in new ventures

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E.; Plummer, Lawrence A. - 2007

An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm. This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...

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Firm growth and productivity growth: evidence from a panel VAR

Coad, Alex; Broekel, Tom - 2007

This paper offers new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a reducedform vector autoregression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of employment, sales, and gross operating surplus, as...

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Firm growth and scaling of growth rate variance in multiplant firms

Coad, Alex - 2007

While Gibrat's Law assumes that growth rate variance is independent of size, empirical work has usually found a negative relationship between growth rate variance and firm growth. Using data on French manufacturing firms, we observe a relatively low, but statistically significant, negative...

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Ownership, economic entrenchment and allocation of capital

Eklund, Johan E.; Desai, Sameeksha - 2008

In an efficient economy, capital should be quickly (re)allocated from declining firms and sectors to more profitable investment opportunities. This process is affected by the concentration of corporate control, which in turn is affected by market institutions. We employ a panel of 12,000 firms...

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