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The rise of China and the global production of scientific knowledge
Ku, Hyejin; Mu, Tianrui - 2025
This paper examines how China’s growing research capabilities impact global research universities across scientific fields. Using bibliometric data from 1980 to 2020, we assess the effects of the "China shock" on high-impact publications, novel concepts, and citation patterns. Our analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015393642
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The rise of China and the global production of scientific knowledge
Ku, Hyejin; Mu, Tianrui - 2025
This paper examines how China's growing research capabilities impact global research universities across scientific fields. Using bibliometric data from 1980 to 2020, we assess the effects of the "China shock" on high-impact publications, novel concepts, and citation patterns. Our analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015399515
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2014
States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751889
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Inventor CEOs and Firm Innovation
Bostan, Ibrahim - 2019
experience significantly better innovation outcomes, as measured by patents and future citations. We obtain these results in … CEOs on future innovation: firms whose CEO transitions to be an inventor experience positive abnormal stock returns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895725
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Firm-Level Human Capital and Innovation : Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli - 2017
Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960108
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Firm-Level Human Capital and Innovation : Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli - 2017
Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962761
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Employee Treatment and Firm Innovation
Mao, Connie X. - 2019
We identify firm innovation as a channel through which the treatment of employees affects firm value. Long …-term incentive theory supports positive effects of “good” employee treatment on innovation. Alternatively, entrenchment theory … suggests such treatment will lead to complacency and shirking, hence deterring innovation. These opposing views merit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012904055
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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltán J. (contributor); Sanders, Mark (contributor) - 2008
generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …. -- Intellectual property rights ; endogenous growth ; entrepreneurship ; incentives ; knowledge spillovers ; rents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003767918
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Inventor returns and mobility
Harhoff, Dietmar; Heller, David; Momtaz, Paul P. - 2024
We show that firm and industry, rather than inventor and invention factors, explain more than half of the variation in inventor returns in administrative employer-inventor-patent-linked data from Germany. Between-firm variation in inventive rents is strongly associated with inventor mobility....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015098713
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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096452