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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O’Gorman, Colm; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864527
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Globalization and Employment:Imported Skill Biased Technological Changein Developing Countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
This paper discusses the impact of the international transfer of embodiedtechnological change on the employment evolution of skills in a sample of low andmiddle income countries (LMICs). A large body of literature has already underlinedthe occurrence of widening wage and employment differentials...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864589
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864991
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The Impact of Geographic Differences inHuman Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
important mechanism is the spillover of relevant knowledge... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865252
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Creating Strategic Advantage through EntrepreneurialGovernance in New Ventures
Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik; Plummer, Lawrence A. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governanceand corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managersstock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm.This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864514
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The influence of Geographic Clusters and Knowledge Spillovers on the Product Innovation Activities of New Ventures
Gilbert, Brett Anitra; Kusar, Mika Tatum - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
whether a geographic cluster location and the knowledge spillovers new ventures assimilate influence both their explorative … and exploitative innovation activities.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864880