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native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …
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We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the …
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In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm … firm's innovation outcomes. -- labor diversity ; ethnic diversity ; patenting activity ; extensive and intensive margins …
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We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …
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We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …
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Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle …
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This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...
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In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...
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; worker selection ; innovation ; patents ; cognitive ability ; non-cognitive ability ; job testing ; call centers ; high …
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