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Access to Finance and Technological Innovation : Evidence from Antebellum America
Mao, Yifei - 2020
This paper provides new evidence on how access to finance impacts technological innovation and establishes the role of … labor practices in shaping the finance-innovation nexus. We exploit antebellum America, a unique setting where staggered … generated heterogeneity in agricultural labor cost. We find that greater access to finance spurred innovation, but the positive …
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Dynamic optimal capital structure and technological change
Lööf, Hans - 2003
This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm's equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448232
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Dynamic optimal capital structure and technological change
Lööf, Hans - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428541
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Venture Capital Investments and the Technological Performance of Portfolio Firms
Lahr, Henry; Mina, Andrea - 2017
What is the relationship between venture capitalists’ selection of investment targets and the effects of these … consequence of prior investment selection based on firms’ patent output. We develop simultaneous models predicting the likelihood … accounting for the endogeneity of investment, we find that the effect of VC on patenting is insignificant or negative, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122928
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The bias of technological change in Europe
Vogel, Johanna; Kratena, Kurt; Hranyai, Kathrin - 2015
This paper is concerned with measuring and influencing the direction of technological change. First, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the factor bias of technological change using panel data from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) for 25 EU countries from 1995 to 2009. We measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340224
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Chapter 11. Technological change and the Environment
Jaffe, Adam B.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 461-516). 2003
technological change, and then examine theory and empirical evidence on invention, innovation, and diffusion and the related …
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Commercial High Technology Innovations Face Uncertain Future Amid Emerging ‘BRICS’ Compulsory Licensing and IT Interoperability Frameworks©
Kogan, Lawrence A. - 2012
at the expense of the innovation and investment communities of OECD member nations, inasmuch as they have raised foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186101
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Growing Foreign Investment and Regulatory/Policy Risks Facing High Technology Innovations
Kogan, Lawrence A. - 2013
High technology innovators and investors operating in the life sciences, clean energy and information and communication technology sectors face complex economic and legal uncertainties compounded by regulatory and policy risks during the course of guiding an innovative concept from its research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188405
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Do firms benefit from complementarity effect in R&D and what drives their R&D strategy choices?
Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - 2014
This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414249
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Embodied and disembodied technological change : the sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction
Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019
, while expansionary investment does so in the "downstream" industries. Conversely, the replacement of obsolete capital …
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