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Do small firms compete with large firms?
Audretsch, David B.; Prince, Yvonne M.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1998
Despite the pervasive phenomenon of scale economies the majority of firms hasalways been small firms. The emergence of small firms as a means of economic development on both sides of the Atlantic has been one of the major new topics of economic policy since the 1980s. This has drawn renewed...
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The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs
Vivarelli, Marco; Catozzella, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …
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Innovation, Industry Evoluation and Employment
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, A. Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a series of articles on the linksbetween innovation, the evolution of … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by CambridgeUniversity Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … the former, while the continental Europeans have chosen thelatter. The purpose the thirteen articles of Innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256687
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Public Policy Frameworks
Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to identify and unravel the disparate views toward innovation prevalent within the … thinking about the economy in general and the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in particular, not only shape how … innovation and entrepreneurial activity are valued, but also the overall policy debate concerning innovation and entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366248
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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies
García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371918
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The determinants of YIc's R&D activity
García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2011
autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386237
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The impact of R&D on employment in Europe: a firm-level analysis
Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011
majority of industrial sectors. This evidence should be kept in mind by European innovation policy makers having employment as …
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R&D and Employment: Some Evidence from European Microdata
Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246701
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Entry and Post-Entry Dynamics in Developing Countries
Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion … - 2013
The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691218
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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature
Vivarelli, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653317