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Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations
Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012
framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multiproduct firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553118
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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes
Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012
We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553120
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859538
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Innovation and sectoral employment: A trade-off between compensation mechanisms
Ebersberger, Bernd; Pyka, Andreas - 1999
employment despite of innovation from employment via innovation. In the context of new innovation economics we model an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291721
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Product Innovation and Population Dynamics in the German Insurance Market
Menhart, Michael; Pyka, Andreas; Ebersberger, Bernd; … - 2003
Empirical research in organizational ecology has mainly focused on analyzing founding and mortality rates using life history data of the organizations. We try to extend this approach in our study in a number of ways. In contrast to most empirical studies in organizational ecology, we chose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262999
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Why do firms co-operate for innovation? : A comparison of Austrian and Finnish CIS 3 results
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd; Pyka, Andreas - 2004
of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). Descriptive statistics indicate that the rate of innovators is quite similar … deeper rooted in the underlying innovation systems than the existing literature may assume. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263012
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A Neo-Schumpeterian approach towards public sector economics
Hanusch, Horst; Pyka, Andreas; Wackermann, Florian - 2009
Innovation is the major driver of economic growth and development. To analyze innovation processes the restriction of a … framework suited to the analysis of innovation towards the industrial sphere of an economy is not sufficient because of the … important co-evolutionary dimensions of innovation. Instead, a comprehensive economic theoretical approach is needed which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270414
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Simulating knowledge-generation and -distribution processes in innovation collaborations and networks
Pyka, Andreas (contributor); Gilbert, G. Nigel (contributor) - 2006
An agent-based simulation model representing a theory of the dynamic processes involved in innovation in modern …. The aim of the simulation exercises is to show that the artificial innovation networks show certain characteristics they … share with innovation networks in knowledge intensive industries and which are difficult to be integrated in traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003358944
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Manifesto for comprehensive Neo-Schumpeterian economics
Hanusch, Horst (contributor); Pyka, Andreas (contributor) - 2006
novelties. By its very nature, technological innovation is the most exponent and visible form of novelty. However, Neo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003394843
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A Neo-Schumpeterian approach towards public sector economics
Hanusch, Horst; Pyka, Andreas; Wackermann, Florian - 2009
Innovation is the major driver of economic growth and development. To analyze innovation processes the restriction of a … framework suited to the analysis of innovation towards the industrial sphere of an economy is not sufficient because of the … important co-evolutionary dimensions of innovation. Instead, a comprehensive economic theoretical approach is needed which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877639