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Regional co-evolution of firm population, innovation and public research? : evidence from the West German laser industry
Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin; Bünstorf, Guido - 2015
We explore the regional co-evolution of firm population size, private-sector patenting and public research in the empirical context of German laser research and manufacturing over more than 40 years from the emergence of the industry to the mid-2000s. Our qualitative as well as quantitative...
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The Supply Side of Innovation : H-1B Visa Reforms & US Ethnic Invention
Kerr, William; Lincoln, William Fabius - 2013
This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian...
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On the concentration of innovation in top cities in the digital age
Paunov, Caroline; Guellec, Dominique; El-Mallakh, Nevine; … - 2019
innovation in these cities. …
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Corporate Innovation and the Technological Advantage of British Regions in the Interwar Period
Cantwell, John A.; Spadavecchia, Anna - 2015
on the impact of the dispersion of corporate innovation on the pattern of regional technological advantage, and … contributes to the debate concerning the role of corporate innovation in the international relative decline of the British economy … in the interwar period. Overall, the rise of corporate innovation in the largest firms in Britain did play a significant …
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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015
In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that...
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The Indiana Technology Innovation Super Cluster : Creating Jobs in a Mid-Western Regional Economic Environment
Vass, Laurie Thomas - 2015
economic vitality caused by investments in domestic technology innovation in the formerly integrated national economy, national … innovation Along with the new innovation park infrastructure, the most important job creation strategy that the EDA could … implement is creating the new capital market infrastructure that targets investments to regional innovation opportunities. This …
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Determinants of technological innovation in SMEs : firm-level factors, agglomeration economies and the role of KIBS providers
Ganau, Roberto; Di Maria, Eleonora - 2014
The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …
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The limits of lending : banks and technology adoption across Russia
Bircan, Çaðatay; Haas, Ralph de - 2015
credit constraints on firm-level innovation. We find that access to bank credit helps firms to adopt existing products and … acquiring external know-how. We find no evidence that bank credit also stimulates firm innovation through in-house R&D. This …
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Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …
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Innovation in clean coal technologies : empirical evidence from firm-level patent data
Kruse, Jürgen; Wetzel, Heike - 2016
This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to a.ect innovation in clean coal … clean coal patenting and overall propensity to patent positively a.ects clean coal innovation. On the demand-side we find … strong evidence that environmental regulation of emissions, that is, CO2, NOX and SO2, induces innovation in both efficiency …
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