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Can Institutional Change Impact High-Technology Firm Growth?: Evidence from Germany's Neuer Markt

Elston, Julie Ann; Audretsch, David B. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

and innovation within the German economy... …

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Innovation, Employment and Skills inAdvanced and Developing Countries:A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...

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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistentand more erratic. Moreover, our results … suggest that firm and market characteristics play adistinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of different age …

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The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fosteringthe Complementarity of Innovative Inputs

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive toR&D Investment

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, thispaper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While findingfurther support for the well-established technology-push and demand-pull hypotheses, thisstudy also tests the role...

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Beyond the Knowledge Production Function : The Role of R&D in a Multi-faceted Innovative Process

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, de-pending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

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Creating Strategic Advantage through EntrepreneurialGovernance in New Ventures

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik; Plummer, Lawrence A. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governanceand corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managersstock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm.This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...

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One or Many Knowledge Production Functions? Mapping Innovation Activity Using Microdata

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm's own formal R&D activities and at the acqusition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...

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The Missing Link

Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link...

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Corporate R&D and Firm Effi ciency:Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities onfirms’ performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontiertechnique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal datasetconsisting of 532 top...

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