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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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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
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investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …
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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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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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This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate the process of creative destruction by increasing the … find evidence that high-quality inventions are sold under preemptive bidding competition. Asymmetric information problems …
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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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