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European Patenting and the Size of Inventors

schettino, francesco; Sterlacchini, Alessandro - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2007

-2005, have submitted patent applications to the European Patent Office. The inventors' features and patenting activities are … inventions of the two groups. Nevertheless, one third of small inventors evaluates negatively its patenting experience, while it …

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Determinants of R&D and Its Productivity: Identifying Demand and Supply Channels (First revision)

Nagaoka, Sadao - Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2003

Identifying whether an exogenous factor affects R&D from a demand side or from a supply side is an important issue. This paper, first, theoretically shows that a favorable change in either side can reduce the R&D productivity in equilibrium, so that the reduced form estimation cannot provide a...

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Entrepreneurial spawning and firm characteristics

Habib, Michel Antoine; Hege, Ulrich; Mella-Barral, Pierre - 2011

We analyze the implications of entrepreneurial spawning for a variety of firm characteristics such as size, focus, profitability, and innovativeness. We examine the dynamics of spawning over time. Our model accounts for much of the empirical evidence relating to the relation between spawning and...

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Entrepreneurial Spawning and Firm Characteristics

Mella-Barral, Pierre - 2017

We analyze the implications of the decision to spawn or to retain a new product for the nature and evolution of the firm. In our model, a new product is spawned if the fit between the product and its parent firm organization is not adequate. We focus on the impact of the firm's history of...

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Institutional Effects on the Evolution of the Size Distribution of Firms

Henrekson, Magnus - 2013

In this paper it is argued that the size distribution of firms may largely be determined by institutional factors. This hypothesis is tested in an exploratory fashion by studying the evolution of the size distribution of firms over time in Sweden for a period spanning from the late 1960s to the...

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Entrepreneurial Spawning and Firm Characteristics

HABIB, Michel A.; HEGE, Ulrich; MELLA-BARRAL, Pierre

We analyze the implications of entrepreneurial spawning for a variety of rm characteristics such as size, focus, profitability, and innovativeness. We examine the dynamics of spawning over time. Our model accounts for much of the empirical evidence relating to the relation between spawning and...

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Entrepreneurial Spawning and Firm Characteristics

Mella-Barral, Pierre; Habib, Michel A.; Hege, Ulrich - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2013

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Beyond Penrose : A Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition is a wide notion, including value judgments and corresponding feelings and emotions.This paper focuses on the relation between that cognitive theory and Penrose's theory of the...

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The Heterogeneity of Job Creation and Destruction in Transition and Non-Transition Developing Countries : The Effects of Firm Size, Age and Ownership

Ochieng, Haggai Kennedy - 2018

countries may be using soft budget constraint which allows state owned firms to overstaff. Finally, crowding out of SMEs by …

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The Impact of Knowledge Management Strategies on the Relationship between Intellectual Capital and Innovation : Evidence from SMEs

Hayaeian, Sahar; Hesarzadeh, Reza; Abbaszadeh, Mohammad Reza - 2021

developing the effect of intellectual capital (IC) on innovation for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Specifically … SMEs.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzes survey responses from 170 owners/managers of SMEs in Iran. The study … innovation.Originality/valueThis paper is an empirical attempt in SMEs to combine IC and KM strategies to strengthen innovation …

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