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Little Firms and Big Patents: The Incentives To Disclose Competencies

Gick, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2004

This paper offers a theoretical treatment of information disclosure through patenting. We consider a signaling model in …

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How Many Patents Does it Take to Signal Innovation Quality?

Comino, Stefano; Graziano, Clara - CESifo - 2014

In this paper, we offer a novel explanation to the surge in patenting bserved during the last years. With low …

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The Microeconomics of Innovation: Oligopoly Theoretic Analyses with Applications to Banking and Patenting

Kauko, Karlo - Suomen Pankki - 2000

model is used to study patenting decisions by a company that has made an innovation. A company can monopolize its innovation … by either patenting it or keeping it secret. Patenting is the only viable option if a competitor independently comes up … others who would like to develop substitute products. Patenting is thus not advantageous unless the competitor is likely to …

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The State of Patenting at Research Institutions in Developing Countries: Policy Approaches and Practices

Zuniga, Pluvia - Economics and Statistics Division, Word Intellectual … - 2011

policy changes aimed to foster academic patenting and technology transfer in low- and middle-income countries. It then … analyzes patenting activities by universities and PROs and compares these trends with respect to high-income countries. This … analysis is complemented with an assessment of the current state of patenting and technology commercialization practices in a …

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Size of training firms and cumulated long-run unemployment exposure : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers’ careers

Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...

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Size of training firms : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers' careers

Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - 2014 - Version: 1 October 2014

The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...

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Who creates jobs? : estimating job creation rates at the firm level

Huber, Peter; Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2013

This paper analyzes econometric models of the Davis, Haltiwanger and Schuh (1996) job creation rate. In line with the most recent job creation literature, we focus on employment-weighted OLS estimation. Our main theoretical result reveals that employment-weighted OLS estimation of DHS job...

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All Things Great and Small : Organizational Size, Boundaries of the Firm, and a Changing Environment

Josefy, Matthew - 2017

Research findings have established a relationship between organizational size and a substantial set of organizational outcomes, resulting in size's distinction as “perhaps the most powerful explanatory organizational covariate in strategic analysis”. We draw on the theory of the firm to...

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Determinants of Diversification by Young, Small Firms

Baptista, Rui - 2012

Young firm diversification is examined investigating the determinants of the timing of diversification (i.e. how long it takes from start-up to diversification). We use extensive longitudinal data containing information on firms' characteristics and environmental conditions, and their evolution...

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