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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demo- graphics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754933
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Patents as Collateral
Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Amable, Bruno - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2010), pp. 1094-1104
This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954524
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Patents as Collateral
Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Bruno, Amable - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114166
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277005
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Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2005
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754963
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Possibility of a Middle Income Trap in China: Assessment in Terms of the Literature on Innovation, Big Business and Inequality
Lee, Keun; Li, Shi - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 9 (2014) 3, pp. 370-397
checkpoints: innovation capability, world-class big businesses, and inequality. Based on these criteria, our conclusions are as …
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EU and China, Competitors and Partners in Innovation and High-Tech Products Trade International Course
Stanculescu, Ecaterina - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 6 (2014) 3, pp. 174-178
This article intends to present the up-to-date situation of EU and China in the innovation activity and the … complementarities and cooperation between them. We analyze also, the evolution in one of the most suggestive results of the innovation … international market is the share of medium and high-tech products in their trade. The article demonstrates that innovation efforts …
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2013
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010852342
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Buy, Keep or Sell: Economic Growth and the Market for Ideas
Akcigit, Ufuk; Celik, Murat Alp; Greenwood, Jeremy - Economie d'Avant Garde - 2013
An endogenous growth model is developed where each period firms invest in researching and developing new ideas. An idea increases a firm's productivity. By how much depends on how central the idea is to a firm's activity. Ideas can be bought and sold on a market for patents. A firm can sell an...
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