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Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2009

Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions withoutthe consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensingafter World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the long run effects of...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies

Ács, Zoltán; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt

Acs, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

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Conclusions and Controversies about the Effectiveness of School Resources

Hanushek, Eric Alan - W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy … - 1998

[...]This paper analyzes the current state of the educationsystem in the United States. In the course of the paper, Iwill try to point out where controversy exists, particularlyin academic discussions.[...]

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US … labor forceparticipants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneurnegatively. We show …

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Entrepreneurship and Higher Education: An Overviewof the Iowa State University Alumni Survey

Jolly, Robert William; Li, Yu; Orazem, Peter F.; Kimle, … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

human capital and innovation are important for growth entrepreneurship,then higher education should have a significant role … requested information on graduates’ employmenthistory, further education, income, entrepreneurial activity and community …

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Risk Aversion or Risk Management?: How Measuresof Risk Aversion Affect Firm Entry and Firm Survival

Cho, In Soo; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011

The link between measured risk aversion and the decision to become an entrepreneur iswell established, but the link between risk preferences and entrepreneurial success is not.Standard theoretical models of occupational choice under uncertainty imply a positivecorrelation between an...

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Using patents to mislead rivals

Langinier, Corinne - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

Recent surveys report that firms claim they do not rely heavily on patents in order toappropriate a return on their innovation. Yet, firms do patent, as indicated by the largenumber of patents that are granted. This paper offers a possible resolution to this puzzle.It takes a simplified version...

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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency?: TheCase of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001

Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

Using a unique longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia from 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency changed in response to changing competitive pressures associated with the transition to market. Results show that the period was one of atypically rapid growth of...

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Governance Structures, Efficiency, and Firm Profitability

Lehmann, Erik; Warning, Susanne; Weigand, Jürgen - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

Using a panel data set of 361 German corporations for the period 1991 to 1996 we test the hypothesis that firms with more efficient governance structures have higher profitability. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to ownership concentration, the identity of owners, capital...

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