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Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics
Boppart, Timo; Staub, Kevin E. - 2012
A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of past knowledge and combining them into a new … idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question of how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316896
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Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics
Boppart, Timo; Staub, Kevin E. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of preexisting knowledge and combining them … into a new idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604132
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Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics
Boppart, Timo; Staub, Kevin E. - 2012
A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of past knowledge and combining them into a new … idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question of how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671830
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Business networks, production chains, and productivity: A theory of input-output architecture
Oberfield, Ezra - 2011
This paper studies an analytically tractable model of the formation and evolution of chains of production. Over time, entrepreneurs accumulate techniques to produce their good using goods produced by other entrepreneurs and labor as inputs. The value of a technique depends on both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292100
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The Role of Mortality in the Transmission of Knowledge
Bar, Michael; Leukhina, Oksana - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2009
. Our mechanism allocates a central role to individuals as carriers of useful ideas and to personal contact as an important … means of passing on the useful ideas to future generations. It thus implies that disrupting a human life will impede the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123978
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Evolutionary economics and household behavior
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2014
This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of household behavior. It shows that the goal of evolutionary economics is to improve upon neoclassical economics by incorporating more realistic and empirically grounded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421455
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the middle … income trap as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329064
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R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata
Barbieri, Laura; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 innovative Italian firms over the period 1998-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584669
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052796
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059112