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use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …
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The paper aims at investigating whether Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) can have a role in facilitating regional Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3). Drawing on the economic geography approach to S3, we formulate some hypotheses about the impact that KETs-related knowledge can have on the...
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sustain the innovation process that is at the basis of our prosperity. In this paper we deal with the age distributions of … among inventors. Additionally, we advance the new hypothesis that any age-bias in innovation activity should show up as …
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native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …
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This paper studies the effects of university STEM education on innovation and labor market outcomes by exploiting a … development of patents by students who had acquired a STEM degree. First, the policy changed the direction of their innovation …. Second, it allowed these individuals to reach top positions within firms and be more involved in the innovation process. STEM …
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innovation-relevant human capital or age-specific motivation to lead creative ideas to successful inventions. Departing from …
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innovation-relevant human capital or age-specific motivation to lead creative ideas to successful inventions. Departing from … age effect. -- knowledge production function ; regional innovation analysis ; human capital ; aging ; demographic change …
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sustain the innovation process that is at the basis of our prosperity. In this paper we deal with the age distributions of … among inventors. Additionally, we advance the new hypothesis that any age-bias in innovation activity should show up as … is industry specific. We test this hypothesis with European patent data for Germany. -- innovation ; patents ; age …
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Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their careers. We combine survey information spanning the...
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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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