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Increasingly, entrepreneurship is being discussed and considered as a source of high economic growth and … prove quite useful to analyze the impact of countries' entrepreneurship capital on economic performance and can be a guide … entrepreneurship capital promotes economic performance by serving as a conduit of knowledge spillovers. In addition, kernel density …
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, enhance national innovation and entrepreneurship in the form of product innovation. More specifically, the evidence suggests …
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Influential literature argues that trade promotes knowledge flows and technology transmission between trading partners. This literature focuses on 'direct' research and development (R&D) spillovers which are related to the levels of R&D produced by the trading partners. In this paper the authors...
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enterprises in the developing world. It empirically investigates two transmission channels of knowledge spillovers. First, direct …
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Using firm-level data for Jordan, the paper estimates the extent to which growth spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to local firms stem from persistent learning externalities (i.e., they endure even after foreign investment leaves as knowledge has been transferred to local firms) or...
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Using newly collected survey data on direct supplier-multinational linkages in Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Vietnam, this paper first evaluates whether foreign investors differ from domestic producers in terms of their potential to generate positive spillovers for...
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dramatically, but at least twice as fast as world GDP over the past 20 years. Yet, consumers and investors continue to spend and …
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This paper examines whether the degree of spillovers from foreign direct investment is affected by the foreign ownership share in investment projects. The analysis, based on an unbalanced panel of Romanian firms from 1998-2000, provides evidence consistent with positive intra-sectoral spillovers...
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Trade liberalizations have been shown to improve domestic firms' performance through the new varieties of imported intermediate inputs. This paper uses a unique, representative sample of Bangladeshi garment firms to highlight that local intermediate inputs may also enhance domestic firms'...
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