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Employment effects of business dynamics: Mice, Gazelles and Elephants

Ács, Zoltán J.; Mueller, Pamela - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics and employment effects in 320 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA). Much of the theoretical work on industry dynamics focuses on the role of noisy selection and incomplete information on entry and survival. We extend this...

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Regional Innovation in the US over Space and Time

Varga, Attila; Anselin, Luc; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2003

consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building … on a recently developed cross sectional-time series data set of US innovation, private and university research and high …

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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies

Plummer, Lawrence A.; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2004

New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...

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New Firm Survival and Human Capital

Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004

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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

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Intellectual Property Protection Mechanisms in Research Partnerships

Hertzfeld, Henry R.; Link, Albert N.; Vonortas, Nicholas S. - 2004

A set of U.S.-based companies is investigated regarding the effectiveness of intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) in the formation of research partnerships. Patents are the most frequently used IPPM to protect both background and foreground knowledge in partnerships. Other IPPMs...

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