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The nature and effects of technological change over the industry life cycle
Filson, Darren - 2000
This paper estimates the nature and effects of quality and cost innovations in the early automobile, personal computer, rigid disk drive, computer monitor, and computer printer industries using industry-level data on firm numbers, price, quantity, and quality along with an equilibrium model of...
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Negotiation as a means of developing and implementing environmental policy
Caldart, Charles C.; Ashford, Nicholas Askounes - 1998
In the environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that negotiated rulemaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608405
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Negotiation as a means of developing and implementing health and safety policy
Caldart, Charles C.; Ashford, Nicholas Askounes - 1998
In the health, safety, and environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608406
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in the rust belt
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271770
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High-tech immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Hart, David M.; Ács, Zoltán J.; Tracy, Spencer - 2009
In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271795
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The startup process
Acs, Zoltán J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 121-132
Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and … welfare effects. The papers in this special issue are from the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in … empirical evidence on the relationship between stages of economic development and entrepreneurship. Third, to present a summary …
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High-tech immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltán J.; Tracy, Spencer - 2009
In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally … entrepreneurs ; High Tech ; High Impact Firm ; Entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887158
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …
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Institutions and Technological Innovation During Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Sokoloff, Kenneth L.; Khan, B. Zorina - 2021
Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and for democratization. The United States deliberately...
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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
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