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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....
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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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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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Standards, consortia, and innovation
Baron, Justus; Ménière, Yann; Pohlmann, Tim - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 36 (2014) C, pp. 22-35
The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …
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PREDICTING INNOVATION ACTIVITY IN EUROPEAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS: A MULTI-COUNTRY EMPIRICAL STUDY
Papastathopoulos, Avraam; Beneki, Christina C. - In: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research 4 (2011) 2, pp. 49-65
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence the Internal Process Innovation (IPI) Activity … manufacturing small, medium and large enterprises were examined and a set of hypotheses, regarding their innovation activity, were …) and the electronic information exchange between business partners are positively related to firm’s process innovation …
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Virtual teams – just a theoretical concept or a widely used practice?
Mihhailova, Gerda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Virtual teams and management processes in them have been researched mainly theoretically. Most of these papers concentrate on presenting the definition and/or on outlining the advantages/disadvantages of virtual teams. Use of virtual teamwork is still relatively new field for academic research...
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Le Web 2.0 comme nouveau paradigme de l’entreprise ?
Tran, Sébastien - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
The proliferation of articles in the press, the media, and on the Internet demonstrate a real interest in the Web 2.0 phenomenon. The concept can be seen as a new step in the development of the Internet network as evidenced by its “2.0” label, in opposition to Web 1.0. All the same, it is...
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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