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This paper describes a simple model of aggregate and firm growth based on the introduction of new goods. An incumbent firm can combine labor with blueprints for goods it already produces to develop new blueprints. Every worker in the economy is also a potential entrepreneur who can design a new...
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startups just to "kill" their ideas, and acquisitions can erode incumbents' own innovation incentives. Our paper aims to assess …. Our calibrated model implies that acquisitions raise the startup rate, but lower incumbents' own innovation as well as the …
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This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational … moderate, short-term consumption loss. Human capital is complement to all forms of innovation and an educational policy … stimulates both energy and general purpose innovation. This result has important policy implications considering the growing …
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protection, eco-innovation) of the ecological/sustainability transition. If the one-size-fits-all has not been proved a viable … 2019. The set of questions span from economic and financial performances to innovation adoption (product, process …
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adoption of circular economy innovation. The work is empirical, and it draws on a newly collected dataset representative for …
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models is becoming crucial to increase resource productivity and achieve competitive advantages. Notwithstanding eco-innovation … consensus exists on the boundaries and interlinkages among the concepts of Eco-Innovation, Circular Economy and Circular … analysed firms in Emilia Romagna, in terms of cleaner production strategies. By contrast, any business innovation linked to the …
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This paper studies firms' decisions to export and invest in R&D and their effects on employment growth and labor flows for a sample of Italian SMEs operating in the manufacturing industry. After accounting for the under-reporting of R&D in SMEs, our quantile regressions reveal that (i) R&D is...
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The nexus between fi?rm growth, size and age in U.S. manufacturing is examined through the lens of quantile regression models. A number of interesting features are unveiled that linear frameworks could not detect. Size pushes both low and high performing firms towards the median rate of growth,...
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