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Western multinational corporations (MNCs) increasingly locate advanced functions, including product development and engineering, in emerging economies to gain access to lower-cost science and engineering (S&E) talent and specialized service providers. Over time, new S&E clusters have developed...
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technologies during the early stages of which a discovery is followed by a period of rapid economic growth and innovation, and the …
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innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …
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more active in R&D. -- Ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D …
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What puts productivity spillovers into effect through worker mobility across firms? Productivity difference between the sending and receiving firms have been found to drive these spillovers; while an alternative explanation suggests that labor flows from foreign-owned companies provide...
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more active in R&D. -- ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D …
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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...
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Medical innovation enhances labor health, promotes human capital productivity, and influences asset prices. Using a … manually collected dataset on drug approvals to identify medical innovation, I first confirm its direct impact on human capital … -- a higher medical innovation shock predicts a higher growth of hours worked and total factor productivity, and firms with …
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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 …
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In this study, we empirically assess the contributions of inventors and firms for innovation using a 37-year panel of U …
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