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Human Capital, Firm Capabilities, and Innovation

Bhaskarbhatla, Ajay; Hegde, Deepak; Peeters, Thomas - 2017

rather than training workers to enhance innovation performance. …

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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008

Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...

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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008

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Human capital diversity and product innovation: A micro-level analysis

Söllner, René - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...

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An empirical model of growth through product innovation

Lentz, Rasmus; Mortensen, Dale T. - 2005

through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution …

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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...

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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship

Ács, Zoltán J.; Sanders, Mark - 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 …

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Employment protection legislation, multinational firms and innovation

Griffith, Rachel; Macartney, Gareth - 2010

The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation (EPL) on innovation is … technologically advanced innovation. In this paper we find empirical evidence that both effects are at work - multinational … innovation in countries with low EPL. …

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Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers: Evidence from Pakistan.

Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2024

analyzed five different measures of process innovation output: cost reductions, defect rate reductions, reductions in … of innovative capabilities, level of competition, and availability of market sources of knowledge are important inducers … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform …

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Innovation, labour demand and wages in Poland: Some introductory results using micro-macro data

Walewski, Mateusz - 2009

There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most of the results indicating positive effects. Thus far, this kind of analysis has not been performed for Poland and it seems to be an important and interesting field for...

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