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Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …
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Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …
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indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …
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between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the … degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive …
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This article analyzes, empirically, the link between public procurement and innovation activities by taking into … applications for 24 countries over the period 1995-2012, we test the impact of public procurement on innovation activities and … patenting is positively affected by the public procurement while a high degree of import penetration reduces the innovation …
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Innovation and export decisions are closely interlinked. Both activities contribute to firm performance in various ways …: exporting provides a wider market to sell products, while innovation provides new and better products to supply those markets … and/or more efficient ways to reduce costs. The connection of innovation and exporting is of major interest to developing …
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from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … innovation and existing product competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data … intellectual property and in existing products are associated with decreased U.S. firm innovation …
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