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The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...
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We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …
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drive innovation. …
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closely connected with changing knowledge and property rights. The internationalization of markets as a consequence of …
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The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry's innovative output. Two mechanisms are therefore tested, i.e. agglomeration economies and the regional exploitation of technological proximity. A new dataset is applied, which includes...
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We analyze the emergence and spatial evolution of the German laser systems industry. Regional knowledge in the related … downstream systems market. Entry into the materials processing submarket appears to be unrelated to academic knowledge in the … region, but the presence of laser source producers and the regional stock of laser knowledge are still highly predictive in …
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