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levels of innovation. The paper also shows that the optimal incentive contract for innovative employees has an option …
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At least since Schumpeter published his work "The Theory of Economic Development" (1912), a wide body of literature has focused on the evolutionary process behind firm growth and survival. Recently a growing interest is devoted to the variable "location" as a critical factor, shaping firm...
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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This paper investigates the effects of employee mobility on industry evolution and technology diffusion by testing a dynamic industry equilibrium model introduced in Franco and Filson (1999). The model focuses on a particular type of employee mobility: researchers can leave existing firms and...
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reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …
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Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …
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This paper reviews the literature on the role of public equity markets in the innovation ecosystem. The review … paper discusses the potential shortcomings of public equity markets that may hinder innovation, and highlights various …
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classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …
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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
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