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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program
Link, Albert - 2014
There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …
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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 …, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …
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The Importance (or Not) of Patents to UK Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2015
a number of explanations for these findings: most firms are SMEs, many innovations are new to the firm, but not to the … innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …
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The Sugar Institute Learns to Organize Information Exchange
Genesove, David; Mullin, Wallace P. - 2021
This paper describes information exchange under the Sugar Institute, the trade association of U.S. domestic sugar cane refiners, between 1928 and 1936. The Institute collected production and delivery data from the individual firms and returned it to them in aggregated form. Attempts to exchange...
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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia
Krishna, Pravin - 2010
in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) also suggests that countries with a smaller proportion … distributed more equally across sub-national regions. Our results highlight the importance of developing infrastructure including …
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Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition : Evidence from South Asia
Vogl, Tom - 2012
Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger...
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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
Growth has accelerated in a wide range of developing countries over the last couple of decades, resulting in an extraordinary period of convergence with the advanced economies. We analyze this experience from the lens of structural change – the reallocation of labor from low- to...
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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
Arunachalam, Raj - 2010
systematic study of dowry inflation. Using large-sample retrospective survey data from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal, we …
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Missing Unmarried Women
Anderson, Siwan - 2015
That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documented. Unmarried women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is more extreme for women in these regions compared to...
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