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Mobility of ideas for innovation: The role of inventor-specific knowledge flows
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - 2015
words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor entering (leaving) the firm, the more the firm’s innovation performance … pharmaceuticals and mechanical engineering such that the mobility of an inventor to a firm increases its innovation performance but … the mobility of an inventor from a firm does not affect its innovation performance. We further find that particularly …
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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper evaluates the impact of two public programs, FONTEC and FONDEF, aimed at fostering innovation in Chilean …
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Mobility of ideas for innovation: The role of inventor-specific knowledge flows
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2015
words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor entering (leaving) the firm, the more the firm’s innovation performance … pharmaceuticals and mechanical engineering such that the mobility of an inventor to a firm increases its innovation performance but … the mobility of an inventor from a firm does not affect its innovation performance. We further find that particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115239
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Production Suspension Announcement and Market Value of the Firm : Evidence from Korea
Han, Seung Hun - 2016
We investigate 589 production suspension announcements during from 2000 to 2015 in Korea to identify determinants of production suspension, event, operating and financial characteristics. We find that restructuring announcements have negative impact on stock returns while other reasons such as...
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Research and development, profits, and firm value : a structural estimation
Warusawitharana, Missaka - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 2, pp. 531-565
This study presents a model in which firms invest in research and development (R&D) to generate innovations that increase their underlying profitability and invest in physical capital to produce output. Estimating the model using a method of moments approach reveals that R&D expenditures...
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Co-determination and innovation
Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2012
. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Start-ups ; Ownership ; Breakthrough ; Quality …
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Long-term effects of subsidies on firm growth : introducing the concept of outcome additionality
Goerke, Björn; Albers, Sönke - 2016
Public agencies provide subsidies for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) to foster their development in terms of employment and sales. Although input and output additionality have been researched intensively little is known about the actual long-term effects of subsidies on SME growth....
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Employment effects of R&D and innovation : evidence from small and medium-sized firms in emerging markets
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021
This paper studies the impact of research and development (R&D) and innovation on employment growth, focusing on small … and medium-sized firms. Employment effects of R&D and innovation are unclear a priori as process innovation may be labor … both R&D and innovation increased employment growth, suggesting that innovation was either capital-saving or labor had …
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Growing out of the crisis : hidden assets to Greece's transition to an innovation economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander - 2013
innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …
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