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This article revisits the socioeconomic theory of the Austrian School economist Ludwig M. Lachmann. By showing that the common claim that Lachmann's idiosyncratic (i.e., eclectic and multidisciplinary) approach to economics entails nihilism is unfounded, it reaches the following conclusions. (1)...
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The paper revisits the socioeconomic theory of the Austrian School economist Ludwig M. Lachmann. By showing that the common claim that Lachmann's idiosyncratic (read: eclectic and multidisciplinary) approach to economics entails nihilism is unfounded, it reaches the following conclusions. (1)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051184
Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …
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The U.S. promotes and produces innovation through a wide range of interdependent institutions, ranging from the grant …" innovation is and in part on how amenable certain types of innovation are to certain forms of institutional provision. To put it … more concretely, (1) innovation is a public good that acts as an input for producing a wide range of dependent goods …
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This chapter describes biobanks as institutions for collection, preservation, curation, and production of knowledge and information, in both material and immaterial forms. That characterization calls for research and comparative analysis of the broad diversity of specific biobanks, using a...
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In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based modelling approach to explore it. The mechanism takes into account the relation between the phenomena that agents attempt to explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a...
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study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …
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The paper presents the methodology of Innovation Biographies that has been designed to study the time-space dynamics of … knowledge and ways of knowledge combination in innovation processes. Innovation Biographies allow capturing relationships … following the process of creation with specific interviewing methods and triangulation, the biography of an innovation is …
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contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
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