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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerard - 2010

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

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The shift to services : a review of the literature

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2003

The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ?classics?, however (Fisher (1935), Clark...

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Nascent Entrepreneurs

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and which ones see their vision through to eventual start-up.

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Innovation and employment: a survey

Vivarelli, Marco - 2007

According to the compensation theory, market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The...

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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...

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Knowledge networks: integration mechanisms and performance assessment

Luna Ledesma, Matilde; Velasco Cruz, José Luis - In: The capitalization of knowledge : a triple helix of …, (pp. 312-334). 2010

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Measuring the knowledge base of an economy in terms of triple-helix relations

Leydesdorff, Loet; Dolfsma, Wilfred; Panne, Gerben van der - In: The capitalization of knowledge : a triple helix of …, (pp. 291-311). 2010

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The knowledge economy : Fritz Machlup's construction of a synthetic concept

Godin, Benoît - In: The capitalization of knowledge : a triple helix of …, (pp. 261-290). 2010

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The role of boundary organizations in maintaining separation in the triple helix

Davenport, Sally; Leitch, Shirley - In: The capitalization of knowledge : a triple helix of …, (pp. 243-260). 2010

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Multi-level perspectives : a comparative analysis of national R&D policies

Lanciano-Morandat, Caroline; Verdier, Eric - In: The capitalization of knowledge : a triple helix of …, (pp. 218-242). 2010

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