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growth and convergence of an economy towards the world technology frontier. -- Growth ; skills ; innovation ; selection …
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In this paper, we study the role of risk-sharing in entrepreneurship-driven innovation. Studying entrepreneurship and … innovation entails modeling an occupational choice and an effort choice. Risk-sharing may increase the number of individuals who …
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technology and innovation have created a plethora of new opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises. This paper …
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We describe Germany's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century through radical innovation and … miracle, was nevertheless a period during which innovation slowed down - a somewhat surprising conclusion, but consistent with … innovation indicators, and offer four broad, interrelated explanations in a historical context: (i) the innovation system is …
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This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model. Learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave its Malthusian trap. But entrepreneurs in the manufacturing sector do not attempt invention if not much is known about natural phenomena. This delays the...
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This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model that explains the timing and the inevitability of an industrial revolution through entrepreneurs’ role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave...
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), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …
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What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …
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sector work. -- Knowledge transfer ; science ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; commercialization …
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investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …
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