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and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore …Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …
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knowledge spillovers and other positive externalities. In such a stimulating environment, firms become more prone to be … interaction of distinct knowledge and related problem-solving abilities increases productivity and secures export success. In this … to 250 employees) benefit most from externalities and especially from knowledge spillover. There is weak evidence …
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In this paper I build a North-South model of international trade, economic growth and search-frictional unemployment in the North. Growth is driven by a process of creative destruction in the North followed by imitation in the South. I study the effects of intellectual property rights protection...
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contributes to the turnover of firms parallel to innovation. The indirect effect appears through innovation and growth: more FDI … means higher innovation, this intensifies firm turnover and increases the unemployment rates in both countries even further …
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We study the effect of trade liberalization and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on the unemployment rate of migrants relative to non-migrants. We build a North-South trade and growth model with a positive steady state rate of migration. We find that bilateral trade liberalization...
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, Engineering and Mathematics - workers and the level of the firm and firm- and city-/regional-level innovation in Germany. It also … creative workers to innovation is limited to the boundaries of the firm, whereas that of STEM workers is as associated to the … generation of considerable innovation spillovers. Hence, attracting STEM workers is more likely to end up making German cities …
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The study analyses the impact of different ethnic compositions of start-ups in Germany on the innovativeness of the new businesses. We are able to distinguish between the ethnicity of the founders and that of the early employees following new results that demonstrate the importance of including...
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