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Traditional economic studies of innovation, built on the contribution of Schumpeter, cannot explain why firms of the … same size and market power can show largely different innovation performances. Contrastingly, the literature on corporate … governance provides some useful insights for understanding corporate innovation activity, to the extent that such literature …
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capital on innovation. After controlling for the potential endogenous relationship between venture capital and innovation, the … results indicate that venture capital fosters innovation but mainly at a later stage. …
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capital on innovation. After controlling for the potential endogenous relationship between venture capital and innovation, the … results indicate that venture capital fosters innovation but mainly on a later stage. …
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effect of organizational structure on firm value; second, studies on the effect of innovation on firm value. The current …
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Using a unique database on Swedish patents owned by small firms and individuals, survival models estimate how different factors influence the decision to commercialize the patents. Such an analysis has seemingly never previously been undertaken. Since the owners know more about the patents than...
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in hastening or retarding project resolution. In contrast with previous literature, in some cases managers may secretly … reactions, and corporate control. The theory also implies a perverse sorting of high ability managers to conventional activities … and low ability managers to visionary enterprises …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the role interlocking directorships play in the patenting activities of UK companies and provide further insights into the channels through which this relationship emerges. Our empirical analysis produces three main results: first, interlocking leads to a...
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Based on an original data set with information of a representative portfolio of among the largest 304 R&D investing companies over the 2003-2006 period, the overall analysis, except in a few cases, gives some robust evidence of a positive relationship between top R&D-investing companies and...
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España avanza hacia el final de 2014 por un camino en el que se observan señales positivas de corrección de los desequilibrios que han agravado la crisis y de recuperación de la actividad. Al mismo tiempo, se hacen más evidentes los enormes desafíos a los que hemos de responder para...
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trade credit encourages the innovation activity of the enterprises. However, its impact could be opposite as well. The …
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