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There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …
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The entrepreneur is an elusive character in economic theory due to the difficulty of providing an accurate description. It appears impossible to produce a single definition of entrepreneurship and most theoretical approaches yield operational difficulties. By the same token, most operational...
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Innovation entsteht kein Produkt. Wie sich Unternehmer beim Hervorbringen von Innovationen verhalten, ist aber weitgehend … unbekannt – und damit auch, welches Verhalten sich positiv und welches sich negativ auf eine Innovation auswirkt. Ueber dieses …
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liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
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We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …
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We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …
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Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is … acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate the process of creative destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort … that high-quality inventions are sold under bidding competition. Asymmetric information problems are shown to be solved by …
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Entrepreneurship involves innovation and uncertainty. We outline a theory of entrepreneurship, which highlights the … importance of social networks in promoting innovation and reducing uncertainty. Our findings suggest that this “social” aspect of …
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G23; G24; J15; J61; L5; L26; M12; M13; O31; O32; R11 </AbstractSection> Copyright Nathan; licensee Springer. 2014
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