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Technology Sophistication Across Establishments

Comin, Diego; Cirera, Xavier; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper examines technology sophistication in establishments. To comprehensively measure technology sophistication … 21,000 establishments in 15 countries, we find that the most widely used technology is usually not the most sophisticated … available in the business function. There is significant variation in technology sophistication across and within countries …

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Show Me the Right Stuff : Signals for High Tech Startups

Conti, Annamaria - 2011

investor preferences. For a novel sample of technology incubator startups, we empirically examine the use of patents and …

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Movement of Star Scientists and Engineers and High-Tech Firm Entry

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2006

areas of science and technology, extending the concept of star scientist to all areas of science and technology. The results … top-25 science and technology countries generally has a consistently significant and quantitatively large positive effect … on the probability of firm entry in the same area of science and technology. Other measures of academic knowledge stocks …

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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. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

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Caught In The Middle : The Bias Against Startup Innovation With Technical And Commercial Challenges

Arora, Ashish; Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Startups in IT and life sciences appear to be flourishing. However, startups in other sectors, such as new materials, automation, and eco-innovations, which are often called "deep tech", seem to struggle. We argue that innovations with both technical and commercial challenges, typical of deep...

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The Leveraging of Silicon Valley

Davis, Jesse - 2020

Early-stage firms utilize venture debt in one-third of financing rounds despite their general lack of cash flow and collateral. In our model, we show how venture debt aligns incentives within a firm. We derive a novel theoretical channel in which runway extension through debt increases firm...

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Monetary Policy and Sectoral Shocks : Did the FED react properly to the High-Tech Crisis?

Raddatz, Claudio - 2003

This paper presents an identification strategy that allows us to study both the sectoral effects of monetary policy and the role that monetary policy plays in the transmission of sectoral shocks. We apply our methodology to the case of the U.S. and find some significant differences in the...

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Cooperative Marketing Agreements Between Competitors : Evidence from Patent Pools

Lerner, Josh - 2003

On numerous occasions, rival firms seek to market goods together, particularly in high-technology industries. This …

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Hi-tech Innovation and Productivity Growth : Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?

Gordon, Robert J. - 2003

This paper argues that the late 1990s boom in ICT investment was unsustainable for both macro and micro reasons; we are unlikely again to witness an interval in which computer hardware investment grows at an annual rate greater than 30 percent for five straight years. Analysts who base their...

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The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment

Jia, Jian - 2018

-run impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects on EU ventures …

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