The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to … innovative strategic groups are demonstrated, analyzing the case of the African poor in Benin and the African Diasporas of Brazil …'articulation des modernités multiples dans les sociétés africaines et les diasporas noires en Amérique latine: La culture occidentale …

formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80 years and that such an entrepreneurial culture can even survive abrupt …

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … British Industrial Revolution. We also discuss empirical studies documenting the importance of culture and preference …

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to … the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … country of ancestry as cultural proxies, we find that culture matters for the female labor supply. Cultural proxies are …

value of patents and their potential to block competitors in technology markets. Our empirical results for European firm … firms with valuable patents. However, patents with a potential to block technology competitors seem to be only of interest …

acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm …'s patents, especially if blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results …

acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm … blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results have implications for …

Estimating the response of hours worked to technology shocks is often considered as a crucial step for evaluating the … estimated using a VAR, and retrieve alternative nonfundamental representations of the relation between technology shocks and … conditioning on a technology shock. This result is more robust than the results by Christiano et al. [2004], because it is …