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Researchers increasingly recognize that entrepreneurial employees, intrapreneurs, play a critical role in innovation …
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ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient...
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between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …
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order to carry out innovation. This endogenous threshold level falls as the economy moves closer to the technological … frontier, enabling more entrepreneurs to be engaged in an innovation-based strategy, and consequently, moving the economy from … a technological structure that is based on imitation of foreign technologies to one where domestic innovation dominates …
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We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....
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This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...
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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
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I investigate how the COVID-19 crisis affects innovation activity. I measure the effect of digital resilience on … innovation activity in response to the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic that caused the severe lockdown. I find that the total patent … applications of industries and firms with digital resilience were not affected by the crisis. However, digital innovation measured …
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