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We analyze longitudinal data on innovative start-up projects and apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate the effect of nascent entrepreneurs’ balanced skills on their progress in the venture creation process. Our results suggest that those nascent entrepreneurs who exhibit a...
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hypotheses. We find no direct link between regional knowledge creation, the economic context and an entrepreneurial culture on … point to the importance of an indirect effect of regional characteristics as knowledge creation, the economic context and an …
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We analyze longitudinal data on innovative start-up projects and apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate the effect of nascent entrepreneurs’ balanced skills on their progress in the venture creation process. Our results suggest that those nascent entrepreneurs who exhibit a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010580496
The past 120 years have been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four countries; (ii) a decline in productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan until the second world war...
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effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect …The literature on "Innovation Systems" is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …
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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
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This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at the firm level. We introduce three new … features: (i) A structural model that explains productivity by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment … of firms engage in research activities and/or apply for patents; productivity, innovation and research are endogenously …
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The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry's innovative output. Two mechanisms are therefore tested, i.e. agglomeration economies and the regional exploitation of technological proximity. A new dataset is applied, which includes...
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We review the econometric literature on measuring the returns to R&D. The theoretical frameworks that have been used are outlined, followed by an extensive discussion of measurement and econometric issues that arise when estimating the models. We then provide a series of tables summarizing the...
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rates of innovation. Indeed, there is circumstantial evidence to the opposite. And, indeed, a sound theoretic consideration … of the nature of technological knowledge and the drivers of its accumulation fully reveals the limitation, possible even … both theory and historical experience suggest that loose and limited IPR are most conducive to knowledge accumulation and …
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