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Key Enabling Technologies, Technology Entrepreneurship and Smart Specialisation in Europe
Ciubotaru, Adrian - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 6 (2014) 1
strongly interrelated with the research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3), and to critically evaluate …
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Agglomeration and Innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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Role of Strong <i>versus</i> Weak Networks in Small Business Growth in an Emerging Economy
Kozan, M. Kamil; Akdeniz, Levent - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 1, pp. 35-50
weak ties for small business growth and innovation in emerging economies are discussed. The findings suggest that culture …
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Entrepreneurship - Requirement and Necessity of the Current Economic Context
Simona, Mãrãcine Mihaela; Maria, Ducu Corina - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 1288-1291
At the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurial leadership is as necessary as water and air for survival. The knowledge of entrepreneurial practices and methods is useful for the companies facing a complex and changing environment, but also in society’s interest, to ensure development...
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Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units
Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
also find that higher innovation levels and experience from the parent university are associated with higher efficiency …
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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes
Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012
We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...
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Animal Spirits Meets Creative Destruction
Francois, P.; Lloyd-Ellis, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001
We show how a Schumpeterian process of creative destruction can induce coordination in the timing of entrepreneurial activities across diverse sectors of the economy.Consequently, a multi-sector economy, in which sector-specific, productivity improvements are made by independent, profit-seeking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092449
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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884121
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INNOVATION IN THE EUROPEAN VALUE CHAIN: THE CASE OF THE ROMANIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
NEGREA, Alina Petronela; COJANU, Valentin - In: CES Working Papers 7(1) (2015) March, pp. 126-146
’ approach to and perception on innovation, (2) factors affecting innovation, and (3) networking and knowledge diffusion in the … innovation plays at the current stage of the industry and the key role entrepreneurs have in stimulating innovation in the … presence of an innovation friendly business environment, entrepreneurs’ personality, as well as the external competitive …
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