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Do Low-Income Countries Have a High-Wage Option?

Rodrik, Dani - 2010

Poor countries must specialize in standardized. labor-intensive commodities. Middle income countries may have a richer menu of options available to them if their labor force is reasonably well-educated and skilled. This paper is motivated by the possibility that there may exist multiple...

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Learning by Doing in a Multi-Product Manufacturing Environment : Product Variety, Customizations, and Overlapping Product Generations

Egelman, Carolyn D. - 2015

Extending research on organizational learning to multi-product environments is of particular importance given that the vast majority of products are manufactured in such environments. We investigate learning in a multi-product facility drawing on exceptionally rich data for a manufacturing firm...

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Do Developed and Developing Countries Compete Head to Head in High-Tech?

Edwards, Lawrence - 2010

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Democracy, Technology, and Growth

Aghion, Philippe - 2010

We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we provide evidence that democracy influences productivity growth in different...

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Prices of High-Tech Products, Mismeasurement, and Pace of Innovation

Byrne, David M. - 2017

of innovation, our results suggest that innovation in the tech sector has been more rapid than the rate that would be … of innovation in high-tech sectors has been more rapid than indicated by official statistics, then it is perhaps even …

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The Short-Run Effects of Gdpr on Technology Venture Investment

Jia, Jian - 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the European Union in May 2018. We study its short-run impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects on EU ventures, relative to their US counterparts. The negative...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

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Innovation in Israel 1968-97 : a Comparative Analysis Using Patent Data

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 2021

the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for … israeli innovations reflects quite well world-wide technological trends, except that Computers and Communications, the fastest …

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Tech Clusters

Kerr, William; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2021

Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …

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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength

Peters, Bettina - 2016

This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...

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