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This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...
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city of Hotelling’s model when firms have asymmetric pre-innovation marginal costs of production and compete in prices. We …-drastic innovations. We find that when the innovative firm is efficient compared to the licensee at the pre-innovation stage then the …, this is not true when the innovative firm is inefficient in the pre-innovation stage compared to the licensee. To that end …
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One of the most interesting indicators to show the change in the socio-economic role of universities in the last several decades has been the use of university patenting. However except some individual studies in European countries (e.g. Finland, Norway, Belgium, Italy, Germany and France) there...
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behind the Park as well as the effects of its operation. The author also describes the role of innovation as the main …
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Recent studies in the innovation literature reveal that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) promotes the innovation … shed light on the national innovation activities and anti-corruption programs. …
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In this paper we study the relationship between airport efficiency and two factors: an airport’s centrality in the EU network, and the intensity of competition from alternative airports in the same catchment area. We apply a two-stage econometric model based on the Simar & Wilson (2007)...
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-think these approaches as ways to stimulate innovation in China. … underlying inventions – i.e., their ability to be transformed into something useful and thus constitute innovation. And this is … compounded by various regulatory and institutional factors in China. It is also compounded by the fact that the government has …
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This paper analyzes the role of innovation activities in the export participation of Chinese high-tech firms during the … firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D and product innovation dummies, play only a minor role for domestic … exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech exports but do not rely on indigenous innovation activities. These …
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The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in different West African countries in recent years has been met with growing resistance by established local entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive socio-cultural traits, or whether...
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somewhat discourage building of quality patents and related innovation in China. … enforcement of patent rights in China that hamper patent quality. These range from inadequate review systems to requirements and …
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