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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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Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment : Thirty Years on

MacLeod, William Bentley; Malcomson, James M. - 2023

"Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our most highly cited work. We briefly review the development of this paper and of our subsequent related work, and conclude with reflections on the future of relational contract...

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Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation

Heshmati, Almas - 2013

This research introduces an agent-based simulation model representing the dynamic processes of cooperative R&D in the manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 and captured in a multivariate probit...

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Racing Against Time in Research : A Study of the 1995 U.S. Patent Law Amendment

Kim, Jinyoung - 2017

more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

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Why Don't Women Patent?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2012

scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for …

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Creativity and the Family Tree : Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Link, Albert N. - 2011

In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...

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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...

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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany - 2020

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of...

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Innovation and Smes Patent Propensity in Korea

Han, Junghee - 2015

This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …'s academic credentials are positively related with propensity to patent.From the findings, we can conclude that patenting …

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