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University spinoffs and the 'performance premium'

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and …

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Outsider CEO succession and firm performance

Jalal, Abu M.; Prezas, Alexandros P. - In: Journal of Economics and Business 64 (2012) 6, pp. 399-426

We examine outside CEO succession for 528 firms during the period 1993–2009. Announcement-period returns are positive, but higher for firms hiring from within their industry than from a different industry. However, unlike the year following succession, firms hiring from a different industry...

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DOES WHAT COUNTRIES EXPORT MATTER? THE ASIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

ADITYA, ANWESHA; ACHARYYA, RAJAT - In: Journal of Economic Development 37 (2012) 3, pp. 47-74

The present paper examines the differences in growth performances of Asia and Latin America, in particular, the roles of trade and institutions in explaining the differential growth experiences of the two regions. In examining trade policy instruments as a plausible explanation of growth...

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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that 'scientific absorptive capacity' at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not necessarily...

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Knowledge Specialisation and the Organisation of Competencies

Nesta, Lionel; Dibiaggio, Ludovic - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2005

firm. We argue that knowledge is heterogeneous because it refers to scientific disciplines and technologies. One must … organisation of knowledge and economic performance at the firm level. …

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The role of scientific and market knowledge in the inventive process: evidence from a survey of industrial inventors

Scandura, Alessandra - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper investigates the role of external knowledge in the patenting activity of inventors that work inside firms, i ….e. industrial inventors. It does so with the aim of showing that inventors who combine the use of different sources of knowledge, i … a so-called productivity approach in which the inventors? knowledge sourcing strategies are used as explanatory factors …

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Knowledge Specialisation and the Organisation of Competencies

Nesta, Lionel; Dibiaggio, Ludovic - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2005

firm. We argue that knowledge is heterogeneous because it refers to scientific disciplines and technologies. One must … organisation of knowledge and economic performance at the firm level. …

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Knowledge Specialisation and the Organisation of Competencies.

Nesta, Lionel; Dibiaggio, Ludovic - Sciences Po - 2005

firm. We argue that knowledge is heterogeneous because it refers to scientific disciplines and technologies. One must … organisation of knowledge and economic performance at the firm level. …

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L’andamento della produzione brevettuale nella regione Friuli Venezia Giulia: un’analisi quali-quantitativa nel periodo 2008-2011

Bortoluzzi, Guido; Longato, Enrico - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali, … - 2013

In this paper we analyze 1026 patent applications filed by firms and inventors from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in the 2008-2011 period. Applications have been analyzed, among the other variables, per type of applicant, industry and market segment. Conclusions have been derived on the...

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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation

Benz, Sebastian - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …

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