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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M. - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies

Garcia-Quevedo, Jose - 2011

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

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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

De Mel, Suresh - 2015

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …

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Innovation, Firm Survival and Productivity : The State of the Art

Ugur, Mehmet - 2020

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

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To Be Born is Not Enough : The Key Role of Innovative Startups

Colombelli, Alessandra - 2016

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

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Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality : The Key Role of Innovative Procedures

Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...

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Social Responsibility in Market Interaction

Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2015

A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of responsibility, social information, and market framing, and provide evidence for how these characteristics...

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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies : An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities

Owolabi, Oluwarotimi Ayokunnu - 2011

The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data from fifteen...

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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade

Aleksynska, Mariya - 2012

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...

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