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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108344
that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
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This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
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Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
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growth and convergence of an economy towards the world technology frontier. -- Growth ; skills ; innovation ; selection …
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Researchers increasingly recognize that entrepreneurial employees, intrapreneurs, play a critical role in innovation …
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The aim of our paper is to provide a comprehensive picture of the role of innovation within the entrepreneurial … be observed between the innovation capability of a country and other elements of its entrepreneurial ecosystem. Ninety …, there are three pillars associated with three different aspects of innovation: Technology Absorption, Product Innovation …
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organizational factors that affect firms’ ability to manage innovation this paper asks which innovation processes and entrepreneurial … 2014 mapping companies’ approach to innovation management during the last 10 years. After surveying 102 firms in the first … importance of corporate strategic orientation, highly developed innovation processes and parallel mechanisms for radical …
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