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Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This survey reviews the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship. The survey is guided in part by the … recent classification changes at the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) regarding entrepreneurship. The board voted to … create a new classification code, L26, for entrepreneurship. The JEL intends to use this code for all articles and books that …

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Greece Needs a Strategy for Its Transition to an Innovation Economy

Kritikos, Alexander S. - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 10, pp. 3-10

Although Greece is showing initial signs of recovering from its 2008 crash, its economy continues to suffer. It has become clear that the economy will not become prosperous only by the given recommendations of the so called Troika, namely by cutting costs and public expenditures, and by making...

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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador

Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …

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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …

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Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers: Empirical evidence from Cambodia

Cheng, Savuth - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2015-2025

This paper investigates productivity spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the host country. By using firm-level data from Cambodia and by regressing domestic firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity on FDI, the study reveals that domestic firms significantly...

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Inward Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity Growth in Japan

Murakami, Yukako; Fukao, Kyoji - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2006

Firstly, this paper shows that before M&A the foreign firms value the facility and scale economy in target firms which have greater capital stock and sales in the host country. Secondly, out-in M&A firms acquired by foreign firms saw an improvement in their business efficiency after the...

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Innovation and copyright infringement: The Case of Commercial Piracy and End-user Piracy

Banerjee, Dyuti; Poddar, Sougata - Faculty of Business, Auckland University of Technology - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the question, whether copyright infringement of digital products like software commonly labelled as piracy impedes innovation. We find the answer depends on the nature of piracy i.e. whether it is end-users or commercial piracy. For end user piracy,...

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Effect of piracy on innovation in the presence of network externalities

Banerjee, Dyuti - In: Economic Modelling 33 (2013) C, pp. 526-532

This paper analyzes the impact of simultaneous increases in piracy (piracy effect) and network externalities (network effect) on R&D investment. A single firm's R&D investment increases (or decreases) if the network effect (or piracy effect) is dominant. With R&D competition, if the firms...

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Agglomeration and innovation

Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

Draft chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vols. 5A and 5B This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. They then discuss how...

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