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Growing out of the crisis: Hidden assets to Greece's transition to an innovation economy

Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 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 - 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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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 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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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship

Ács, Zoltán J.; Sanders, Mark - 2008

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth. …

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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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Offshoring R&D

Tuhkuri, Joonas; Lööf, Hans; Mohammadi, Ali; … - 2016

This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped and unique Eurostat International Sourcing Survey. The results are easy to summarize. First, the magnitude of R&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is...

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

Banerjee, Dyuti; Poddar, Sougata - 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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Innovation and education: Is there a "nerd effect"?

Goldbach, Stefan - 2012

This paper investigates whether entrepreneurs with technical education are more innovative in high-tech industries than economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation. To analyze this question, the KfW/ZEW...

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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007

claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

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