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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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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltán J. (contributor); Sanders, Mark (contributor) - 2008

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …. -- Intellectual property rights ; endogenous growth ; entrepreneurship ; incentives ; knowledge spillovers ; rents …

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Balanced skills and the city : an analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013

Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...

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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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The impact of market size and users' sophistication on innovation : the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle

Guerzoni, Marco (contributor) - 2007

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Spinoffs and Entrepreneurial Talent

Shrivastava, Mili - 2010

Spinoffs frms are an important source of industry dynamics and innovation. While an emerging body of literature …

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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010

Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...

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Knowledge spillovers through FDI and trade : moderating role of quality-adjusted Human Capital

Ali, Muhammad; Cantner, Uwe; Roy, Ipsita - 2015

examining inter-relationship between knowledge spillovers from imports and inward FDI. Moreover, human capital is added to the … discussion as one of the appropri- ability conditions for knowledge spillovers. However, in comparison to most studies that rely …, a strong complementary rela- tionship is found between knowledge spillovers through the channels of imports and inward …

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Labour market integration, human capital formation, and mobility

Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2014

In this paper, we analyse the implications of labour market integration in a two-region model with local human capital externalities and congestion effects. We show that integration can be a double-edged sword. Integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income...

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Occupational choice and self-employment : are they related?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - 2013

Often, a person will become an entrepreneur only after a period of dependent employment, suggesting that occupational choices precede entrepreneurial choices. We investigate the relationship between occupational choice and self-employment. The findings suggest that the occupational choice of...

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