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Studies show that when exports go up, innovation goes up as well. But what is the mediating effect of domestic … institutions in the association between exports and innovation? If any, which institutions are more likely to improve exports and … innovation in developing countries, and how? To address this lacuna, this study employs estimations of industry fixed effects for …
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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
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The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
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Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...
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Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294563
This study investigates the origins of disruptive innovation. According to the canonical model, disruptive innovations … do not originate from existing customers - in contrast with what the user innovation literature would predict. We … compiled a unique historical and content-analytic dataset based on 62 cases identified from the disruptive innovation …
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We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … funds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control for the standard determinants of innovation … aggregate (private equity plus R&D) industrial spending, PE accounts for as much as 12% of industrial innovation. We also …
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innovation as having a ?high? or ?very high? environmental effect. Our findings also show that exporters are 17.5 percent more … likely, all things equal, to report that their firm's innovation cuts the cost of energy/ materials. Our results agree with …
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particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from … and innovation arising from UK R&D is of a high but, compared to their German counterparts, UK firms often fail to …
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This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
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