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Occupations at risk: The task content and job security
Nedelkoska, Ljubica - 2010
to distinguish between different kinds of skills and tasks in order to understand the recent occupational structure … and confirm that occupations characterized by high intensity of interactive and problem-solving tasks have been increasing … their employment share at the expense of occupations with a high level of codifiable tasks (tasks that can be described by …
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Welfare effects of endogenous copyright enforcement: The case of digital goods
Pasche, Markus - 2014
In case of digital goods such like music, intellectual property rights are typically not exerted by the creators (artists) but by intermediaries. Their profits, and therefore also the income of the artists, are endangered by copyright infringements (piracy). It is well known from static welfare...
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Welfare Effects of Endogenous Copyright Enforcement - the Case of Digital Goods
Pasche, Markus - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In case of digital goods such like music, intellectual property rights are typically not exerted by the creators (artists) but by intermediaries. Their profits, and therefore also the income of the artists, are endangered by copyright infringements (piracy). It is well known from static welfare...
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy
Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an overview of theory and empirical research on the...
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Do We Need National Champions? If So, Do We Need a Champions-Related Industrial Policy? An Evolutionary Perspective
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
This paper discusses the role of so-called national champions within the context of the EU's ambitious goal to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economic region in the world by 2010. We find football to be a useful analogy in our discussion of national champions. There are...
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Building a Better Rat Trap : Technological Innovation, Human Capital and the Irula
Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
This case follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the non-profit Center for the De-velopment of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize in catching rats, an activity which provides the...
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Global knowledge embeddedness
Graf, Holger; Kalthaus, Martin - 2022
Various forms of interaction during the process of research and innovation constitute a global network of knowledge generation and diffusion. Countries and their research organizations and individual scientists need to be embedded in this network to participate in global knowledge ows and to...
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Entrepreneurship in the long-run: Empirical evidence and historical mechanisms
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2022
We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over time. A particular focus is on the long-term persistence of regional levels of entrepreneurship, its explanation, and its meaning for economic development. What is the state of empirical research in this field,...
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Comprehensive patent data of the German Democratic Republic 1949-1990: Technical report and dataset overview
Hipp, Ann; Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Günther, Jutta - 2022
This paper documents the generation and the content of the Comprehensive Patent Database (CPDB) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (1949-1990), Version 1.1, which is freely available at GESIS https://doi.org/10.7802/2423. The database contains all patents granted in the GDR and published by...
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The transition of brown regions: A matter of timing?
Basilico, Stefano; Grashof, Nils - 2023
Green innovations aim to improve and reduce the environmental impact of economic activities. Thus far, research focus on the positive trajectories of green transition. Recent studies focus also on the speed of transition and on its effects on economic outcomes. Continuing in this direction we...
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