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Beyond the Knowledge Production Function : The Role of R&D in a Multi-faceted Innovative Process

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, de-pending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

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Building a Better Rat Trap : Technological Innovation, Human Capital and the Irula

Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

catchers, Sethu developed an innovative new trap. His innovation won the prestigious Global Development Marketplace award from …

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One or Many Knowledge Production Functions? Mapping Innovation Activity Using Microdata

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm's own formal R&D activities and at the acqusition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...

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Female Presence on Corporate Boards: A Multi-Country Study of Environmental Context

Terjesen, Siri; Singh, Val - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

A growing body of ethics research investigates gender diversity and governance on corporate boards, at individual and firm levels, in single country studies. In this study, we explore the environmental context of female representation on corporate boards of directors, using data from forty-three...

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment

Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; OGorman, 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...

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Internal and External R&D: A Sample Selection Approach

Piga, Claudio A.; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2003

This study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into an external R&D relationship is related to an antecedent decision to carry out R&D. This calls for a methodological approach that, at the same time, permits the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and...

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