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development model, based on SMEs, which is founded on the specialization of productions, on innovation and internationalization … competitiveness of the Italian industrial districts, if they represent a model of success or rather a weak system of production. Thus … also by the social and cultural environment. The second argument regards the competitiveness of this Italian industrial …
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on SMEs, is struggling to regain competitiveness in global markets. In light of these stylised facts, we first … investigate whether innovating activities and quality goods’ production enhance Italian SMEs’ probability to be exporter. Our … findings suggest that both products’ quality and innovative activities affect considerably SMEs’ likelihood to export …
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Existing research on the relationship between market concentration and innovation has produced conflicting findings. In … addition, the emerging literature on the relationship between corporate governance and innovation tends to focus only on … partial effects of corporate governance on innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating both partial and …
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The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently … innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating whether product-market competition and corporate governance … quality affect firm-level innovation, utilising a dataset for 1,400 non-financial US-listed companies. Using two-way cluster …
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This paper uses a unique and recently available dataset that contains detailed information on firms from around the world to investigate factors that affect under-reporting behaviour by firms. The empirical strategy employed exploits the nature of the dependent variable, which is interval coded,...
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Interaction terms are often misinterpreted in the empirical economics literature by assuming that the coefficient of interest represents unconditional marginal changes. I present the correct way to estimate conditional marginal changes in a series of non-linear models including (ordered)...
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innovation. In other words, competitiveness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for continued prosperity. Hence, the need …
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development model, based on SMEs, which is founded on the specialization of productions, on innovation and internationalization … competitiveness of the Italian industrial districts, if they represent a model of success or rather a weak system of production. Thus … also by the social and cultural environment. The second argument regards the competitiveness of this Italian industrial …
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industry has indeed been losing competitiveness as compared to the USA, although there are large differences and trends across … European countries. As a whole, Europe is lagging behind in its ability to generate, organise, and sustain innovation processes … position of the US as a locus of innovation in pharmaceuticals has increased over the past decade compared to Europe. All in …
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The competitiveness of enterprises depends not only on their strategies and operations but also on the macroeconomic … enterprise competitiveness development in the Czech Republic which focus mainly to the infrastructure for industrial research …, innovation, industry clusters, human resources and business development. …
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