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Innovation and self-employment
Ciarli, Tommaso; Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Savona, Maria - 2020
individual shifts from paid employment to either unemployment or self-employment over the period 2001-13, as linked to changes in … probability of workers to become self-employed. R&D increases the probability of moving from unemployment to paid employment …The paper adds to the literature on innovation and employment by looking at the relationship between R&D investments …
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Restarting the Growth Engine in Finland
Braconier, Henrik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Impressive productivity performance during the last decades has weakened since 2007, reflecting the 2008-09 recession but also a poor performance in important sectors, like the information and communication technology sector. Reforms to raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276818
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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005026825
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Understanding the spanish business innovation gap: the role of spillovers and firms’ absorptive capacity
López-García, Paloma; Montero, José Manuel - Banco de España - 2010
labour force, the share of temporary employment and the amount of resources spent in training. In addition to these factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495178
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The effects of FDI in R&D on home countries, the case of Switzerland
Michel, Julie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to participate in the discussion of the effects of outward FDI in R&D on the home country. The main possible threat for home economies is the relocation of R&D activities to foreign regions and, as a result, the loss of technological capacity. This study contributes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835563
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Enabling and Sustaining Collaborative Innovation
Blecker, Thorsten; Abdelkafi, Nizar; Raasch, Christina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper extends the principles of open source software development to a non-industry-specific level by introducing the Open Source Innovation (OSI) model. OSI exhibits main differences to other related models and concepts such as the private-collective model, commons-based peer production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836373
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ERAWATCH Country Reports 2013: Bulgaria
Chobanova, Rossitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The Republic of Bulgaria has been a Member State of the European Union since 2007. Its economic development has been framed by a Currency Board Arrangement (binding the national currency to the euro) since 1997. Recent development is characterised by slow economic growth. Preliminary GDP data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212221
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The Roles of R&D and networking for innovation by Irish and foreign-owned firms: evidence from the Irish CIS 2006-08
Doran, Justin; O'Leary, Eoin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper provides an empirical test of Cohen and Levinthal’s (1990) hypothesis that undertaking R&D and collaborating with external networks together enhance the probability that firms engage in product and process innovation. Following Doran, Jordan and O’Leary (2013) we test this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259958
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SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742995
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Virtuality, Innovation and R&D Activities
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities....
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