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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States During the Early Twentieth Century
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2014
The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...
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Innovation and Productivity in Smes : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …
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The Importance (or Not) of Patents to UK Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2015
innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …
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Clearing the Bar : Improving Tax Compliance for Small Firms Through Target Setting
Al-Karablieh, Yazan; Koumanakos, Evangelos; Stantcheva, … - 2022
We use a new dataset of the universe of Greek corporate tax returns to study a voluntary tax compliance program for small firms. This “self-assessment” program prescribed target taxable profit margins (the ratio of taxable profits to revenues) for different types of activities. Firms that...
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Covid-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021
We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector...
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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014
as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066114
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Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry
Lampe, Ryan - 2014
that pools encourage innovation in pool technologies, albeit at the cost of innovation in substitutes. Empirical evidence … innovations by new firms for a historical pool in the sewing machine industry (1856-1877) to examine effects on innovation …. Contrary to theoretical predictions, this analysis suggests that pools may discourage innovation in pool technologies and shift …
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Labor Laws and Innovation
Acharya, Viral V. - 2014
employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify … that within a country, innovation and economic growth are fostered by stringent laws governing dismissal of employees …, especially in the more innovation-intensive sectors. Firm-level tests within the United States that exploit a discontinuity …
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Regulatory Choice with Pollution and Innovation
Kolstad, Charles D. - 2014
technologies which reduce the cost of pollution abatement. The innovating firm can patent this innovation and use a licensing fee … to generate revenue. In a world of certainty, the first best level of innovation and abatement can be supported by either … a pollution tax or a marketable permit. However, the returns to the innovator from innovation are not the same under the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069351
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CEO Overconfidence and Innovation
Galasso, Alberto - 2014
" about future performance and standard measures of corporate innovation. We begin by developing a career concern model where … probability of failure, are more likely to pursue innovation, and that this effect is larger in more competitive industries. We …
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