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Agglomeration and innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - 2014
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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Female inventors and inventions
Koning, Rembrand; Samila, Sampsa; Ferguson, John-Paul - 2019
have influenced the direction of innovation over the last four decades. Our findings suggest that the demography of …
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Fingerprints of the visible hand : Chandlerian organizations and their inward looking malaise
Gambardella, Alfonso (contributor);  … - 2004
their inward looking or exploitationʺ attitude in R&D and innovation. We argue that because of sunk costs and learning …. Among other things, this suggests that explorationʺ, which leads to the opening of new innovation trajectories, requires not …
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Towards the factory 4.0? : convergence and divergence of lean models in Italian automotive plants
Moro, Angelo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2021
-organisational configurations of these factories confirm that this wave of technological innovation is far from leading to total automation or the …
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The cost-quantity relations and the diverse patterns of "learning by doing" : Evidence from India
Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Mathew, Nanditha - 2016
"Learning-by-doing" is usually identified as a process whereby performance increases with experience in production. The paper investigates different patterns of "learning by doing", studying learning curves at product level. Cost-quantity relationships differ a lot across products belonging to...
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Financing the capital development of the economy : a Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky synthesis
Mazzucato, Mariana; Wray, L. Randall - 2015
This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital development" very broadly. We begin with the observation that...
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Corporate resilience and response during COVID-19
Cheema-Fox, Alex; LaPerla, Bridget R.; Serafeim, George; … - 2020 - This draft: June 23rd, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp market decline while raising heterogeneous responses across companies related to their employees, supply chain, and repurposing of operations to provide needed products and services. We study whether during the 2020 COVID-19 induced market crash, investors...
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The logic of agglomeration
Duranton, Gilles; Kerr, William R. - 2015
This review discusses frontier topics in economic geography as they relate to firms and agglomeration economies. We focus on areas where empirical research is scarce but possible. We first outline a conceptual framework for city formation that allows us to contemplate what empiricists might...
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Developing novel drugs
Krieger, Joshua; Li, Danielle; Papanikolaou, Dimitris - 2017
We provide evidence that risk aversion leads pharmaceutical firms to underinvest in radical andnovel innovation. We do …, reducing their willingness to investin potentially valuable radical innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928975
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Science-technology-industry links and the "European paradox" : some notes on the dynamics of scientific and technological research in Europe
Dosi, Giovanni (contributor); Llerena, Patrick (contributor) - 2005
This paper discusses, first, the properties of scientific and technological knowledge and the institutions supporting its generation and its economic applications. The evidence continues to support the broad interpretation which we call the ʺStanford-Yale-Sussexʺ synthesis. Second, such...
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