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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda - 2015

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants : A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - 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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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship?A Review of Recent Research

Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in...

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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - 2010

I explore the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited by starting a new venture for an employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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Catching Up or Lagging Behind? The Long-Term Business and Innovation Potential of Subsidized Start-Ups Out of Unemployment

Caliendo, Marco - 2019

survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … and job creation, but especially also in innovation activities. The gaps in these business outcomes are relatively …

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Extreme Events, Entrepreneurial Start-Ups, and Innovation : Theoretical Conjectures

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2021

whether extreme events can positively impact (some) entrepreneurship and innovation. Based on this, we propose a partial …

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The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fosteringthe Complementarity of Innovative Inputs

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn fromthe third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between fourdifferent sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and …

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Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive toR&D Investment

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, thispaper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While findingfurther support for the well-established technology-push and demand-pull hypotheses, thisstudy also tests the role...

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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistentand more erratic. Moreover, our results … suggest that firm and market characteristics play adistinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of different age …

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