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Although empirical evidence available suggests that information and communication technologies (ICT) have positively contributed to important sectors of the Mexican economy, it is still unknown to which extent ICT have truly contributed to productivity among these sectors. The increasing...
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paradigm crisis, highlighting the strong links between the exploitation of knowledge and the accumulation of surplus. Therefore …, increasing productivity - via knowledge and network externalities - output and employment). As a result, we first point out the …
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scientific and technological knowledge, the cognitive basis of entrepreneurship, and the competences for managing market and non … knowledge-base needed for their peoples' well-being and their firms' competitive success in international markets. Nor does the … information infrastructure investments in order to reduce the costs of effective access to global knowledge bases in science and …
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entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … opportunity by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. The basic argument is that knowledge created … endogenously via R&D results in knowledge spillovers. Such spillovers give rise to opportunities to be identified and exploited by …
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This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …
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area GDP per capita. Second, we develop measures of human capital that reflect the types of knowledge within U ….S. metropolitan areas. Regional knowledge stocks related to the provision of producer services and information technology are …
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machinery and for the importance of knowledge spillovers, we find that jobs characterized by a unique knowledge base exhibit … higher levels of geographic concentration than do occupations with generic knowledge requirements. Further, by analyzing co …-agglomeration patterns, we find that occupations with similar knowledge requirements tend to co-agglomerate. Both results provide new …
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Setting up an innovative new firm is a way of commercializing knowledge. The paper gives an overview of the extent of … new firm formation in knowledge intensive and in innovative German industries and their development. The founding of a new …
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An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm. This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...
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knowledge, which ascribe important societal functions to competition. In his later works, he has elaborated his view that …
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