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Innovative start-up patenting : a new approach towards identification and determinants

Wolf, Tina - 2013

There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...

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Sinking or swimming in the cluster labor pool? : a firm-specific analysis of the effect of specialized labour

Grashof, Nils - 2020

Human resources are a key factor for firm success, particularly nowadays when most industrial economies face an increasing shortage of qualified labour. With their pooled labour markets, regional clusters have been shown to be a preferable location for firms in order to satisfy their demand for...

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How innovation affects performance

Gonchar, Ksenia; Kristalova, Maria - 2019

This paper studies how innovation strategies of Russian manufacturing firms affect various features of firm performance …. A multi stage model is used, which relates the firm's decision to undertake R&D to its innovation output, technical … economies may adopt technologies embodied in imported hardware. Additionally, we link productivity and innovation output to …

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The performance of gatekeepers in innovator networks

Graf, Holger; Krüger, Jens - 2009

positive effects on innovation of both the total number of relations and of access to a larger knowledge base. However, when … some sort of public good to the innovation system. -- Innovator networks ; Gatekeeper ; Zero Iflated Generalised Poisson …

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Patent citations, university inventor patents, and survival in the German laser source industry (1960-2005)

Medrano, Luis F. - 2012

The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents … citations ; quality patents ; university-inventor patents ; innovation …

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Surviving against the tide : are new businesses in innovative industries Less affected by general economic trends?

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - 2014

We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...

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The role of R&D in new firm growth

Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - 2009

high growth firms, which are key in innovation and entrepreneurship policies. -- New Firms ; Innovation ; R&D ; firm growth …

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Heritage and firm survival : an analysis of German automobile spinoffs 1886-1939

Rhein, Kristina von (contributor) - 2008

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High-tech immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.

Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltán J.; Tracy, Spencer - 2009

In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally representative sample of rapidly growing "high-impact" companies. This class of companies drives job creation and aggregate growth in the U.S. We find that, while most previous studies have...

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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors and their effect on regional employment growth

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2009

We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...

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