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The performance of clusters has been linked in several studies to their historical and geographical contexts as well as to the drivers that shape the competitive strength of nations. Among these drivers, the human factor and universities play a key role in the competitiveness of nations, as well...
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the technology management literature. Biotechnology is a representative field of markets for technology, and it is also … the context of the empirical study of this research. Even though small and medium-sized enterprises in biotechnology … markets for technology, biotechnology companies often end up in simultaneous collaborative, competitive and market exchange …
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We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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The organizational literature documents the upheaval that incumbent firms, across numerous industries, often experience when they confront technological change. Much of this work is based on evidence drawn from US firms. A separate literature drawn from institutional economics shows that...
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The organizational literature documents the upheaval that incumbent firms, across numerous industries, often experience when they confront technological change. Much of this work is based on evidence drawn from US firms. A separate literature drawn from institutional economics shows that...
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CTA acceptance in China, Germany, and the United States. Public acceptance is highest among Chinese respondents where 60 … percent strongly accept the use of CTAs, while in Germany and the United States fewer than 20 percent strongly accept its use …
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Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not … second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it comes to gigabit-capable connections—particularly in sparsely … and two percent, pure fiber-optic connections only play a minor role. In international comparison, Germany’s need to get …
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We study cross-country differences in rural and urban educational attainment by using a data set for a diverse group of 56 countries. Utilizing human capital, labor market and migration theories, we identify national, rural and urban factors that are expected to influence rural and urban...
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Insurance products are distributed both by independent and dependent agents, although the use of independent agents is more costly. The product quality hypothesis states that independent agents provide both insurers and customers with higher service quality and therefore, remain on the market....
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This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German and Austrian micro data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that exporters are more productive by around 40 percent compared with non-exporters. Moreover, beside other analysis techniques,...
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