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Innovation and firm growth in high-tech sectors: A quantile regression approach

Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - 2007

We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only … returns to innovation are highly skewed and that growth rates distributions are heavy-tailed, it may be misleading to use … that innovation is of crucial importance for a handful of superstar fast-growth firms. We also discuss policy implications …

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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy

Coad, Alex - 2008

This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

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Does the position in the inter-sectoral knowledge space affect the international competitiveness of industries?

Lamperti, Francesco; Malerba, Franco; Mavilia, Roberto; … - 2019

This paper empirically investigates how the inter-sectoral knowledge flows affect the international competitiveness of industries, once controlling for both cost and other technological factors. Using patent data on 14 manufacturing industries in 16 OECD countries over the period 1995-2009, we...

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