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Labor pooling in R&D intensive industries

Gerlach, Heiko A. (contributor); Rønde, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

labor demand. Spatial agglomeration is more likely in situations where the innovation step is large and the probability for …

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Internationalisation, innovation and productivity in services : evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom

Peters, Bettina; Riley, Rebecca R.; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - 2018

This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and … of innovation outputs in all three countries. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to …

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New evidence on determinants of IP litigation : a market-based approach

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2018

, this paper examines the occurrence of IP litigation cases in Belgian firms using the 2013 Community Innovation Survey with … supplemental information on IP litigation and patent portfolios. The rich survey information regarding firms’ general innovation … imitation and incremental innovation. Our results indicate that when controlling for firms’ IP portfolio, the composition of …

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Capabilities accumulation and development : what history tells the theory

Dosi, Giovanni; Yu, Xiaodan - 2018

In this contribution we offer a broad overview of the technological, institutional and policy dynamics associated with the great transformation - borrowing Karl Polanyi (1944) expression - leading from traditional, mostly rural, economies to economies driven by industrial activities (and...

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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2014

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …

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The wage-productivity nexus in the world factory economy

Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica; Yu, Xiaodan - 2019

This paper highlights new findings on the wage-productivity nexus in the World Factory Economy. After presenting the long-run macro-elasticity characterizing the phase of Chinese economic development since the eighties, we look at the wage-productivity nexus from a micro level perspective using...

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The footprint of evolutionary processes of learning and selection upon the statistical properties of industrial dynamics

Dosi, Giovanni; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Virgillito, Maria … - 2015

Evolutionary theories of economic change identify the processes of idiosyncratic learning by individual firms and of market selection as the two main drivers of the dynamics of industries. Are such processes able to robustly account for the statistical regularities which industrial structures...

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Trade and profitability: is there an export premium? : evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

Grazzi, Marco - 2009

Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm’s profitability. The paper shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically associated to higher firm’s profitability. This is shown...

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Repeated choices under dynamics externalities

Bottazzi, Giulio; Secchi, Angelo - 2011

We consider an economy in which a heterogeneous population of agents have to choose among a common set of alternatives. The utilities associated to the different alternatives posses a common component and an individual component, which reflect differences in the underlying structure of agents...

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Modeling industrial evolution in geographical space

Bottazzi, Giulio; Dosi, Giovanni; Fagiolo, Giorgio; … - 2007

In this paper we study a class of evolutionary models of industrial agglomeration with local positive feedbacks, which allow for a wide set of empirically-testable implications. Their roots rest in the Generalized Polya Urn framework. Here, however, we build on a birth-death process over a...

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