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Which form of venture capital is most supportive of innovation?
Bertoni, Fabio; Tykvová, Tereza - 2012
Although there seems to be consensus in the literature that venture capital investors increase the innovation output of … from seven European countries, we investigate which form of venture capital is most supportive of innovation. Our results … suggest that in companies financed by syndicates and by private venture capital investors, the innovation output increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510109
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Success breeds success locally : a tale of incubator firms
Inci, Eren (contributor) - 2006
This paper focuses on the pre-establishment period of start-ups in industrial districts. The industrial architecture is what I call a "rationed agglomeration" in which some entrepreneurs gather around an established firm while other entrepreneurs in the same business stand alone. In a rationed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003383663
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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014
demographic aging mainly increasing the older workforce and shrinking the younger one, our results imply that innovation levels in … of the innovation gap across German regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384982
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Delay and secrecy : does industry sponsorship jeopardize disclosure of academic research?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Grimpe, Christoph; Toole, Andrew A. - 2011
The viability of modern open science norms and practices depend on public disclosure of new knowledge, methods, and materials. Aggregate data from the OECD show a broad shift in the institutional financing structure that supports academic research from public to private sponsorship. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901869
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Consequences of mixed provision of child care : an overview on the German market
Muehler, Grit - 2010 - This version: September 2010
Universal child care that is available, affordable and of good quality is regarded as a key instrument of a country's social and labor market policy. As full public involvement in the provision of child care is costly, licensing non-public providers can enlarges parental choice and relieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008647925
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Returns to education in West Germany : an empirical assessment
Lauer, Charlotte; Steiner, Viktor - 2000
This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997. Based on simple Mincer-type wage equations, we estimate a return of about 8% for men and 10% for women, and these returns have remained remarkably stable over the period. On the...
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Private Erträge von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland
Steiner, Viktor; Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
Wir analysieren die Entwicklung der Bildungsrenditen in Westdeutschland in der Periode von 1984 bis 1997 auf der Basis der Humankapitaltheorie mit Daten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels. Die Schätzergebnisse zeigen, dass Frauen mit etwa 10% eine signifikant höhere durchschnittliche...
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Can the private sector ensure the public interest? : evidence from federal procurement
Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Rovigatti, Gabriele - 2018
We empirically investigate the effect of procurement oversight on contract outcomes. In particular, we stress a distinction between public and private oversight: the former is a set of bureaucratic checks enacted by contracting offices, while the latter is carried out by private insurance...
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All quiet on the wage front? : gender, public-private sector issues, and rigidities in the Polish wage structure
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1997
We analyse the Polish wage and unemployment structure between 1992 and 1995 on the basis of the Polish Labour Force Survey. It is shown that within this period wage inequality has stabilised. Surprisingly, wage inequality is lower in the private than in the public sector. Our test results show...
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Does state aid for broadband deployment in rural areas close the digital and economic divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2016
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid program for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German State of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on broadband quality...
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