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Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance … on rare high-impact metrics (e.g. creating patents and avoiding truck accidents), despite having similar characteristics …

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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance … on rare "high-impact metrics" (e.g. creating patents and avoiding truck accidents), despite having similar …

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Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

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What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research

van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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Co-determination and innovation

Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009

are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law …

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Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D

Pöge, Felix; Gaessler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022

We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...

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Skilled Immigration, Task Allocation and the Innovation of Firms

Mayda, Anna Maria; Orefice, Gianluca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share instrument. Skilled migrants increase the number of patents at both the … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activity …

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The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership

Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights. First, average patent importance declined from...

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

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 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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Foreign and Native-Born STEM Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States

Winters, John V. - 2014

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

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