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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
drive innovation. …
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerard - 2010
-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …
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Technologietransfer durch Unternehmensgründungen: Was man tun und realistischerweise erwarten kann
Fritsch, Michael - 2004
Die Gründung eines innovativen Unternehmens stellt eine Form der kommerziellen Verwer-tung von Wissen dar. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über Ausmaß von Gründungen in wis-sensintensiven bzw. innovativen Branchen und deren Entwicklung. Da die Gründung eines Unternehmens wesentlich durch...
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Innovation and education: Is there a "nerd effect"?
Goldbach, Stefan - 2012
economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation … results depend on the underlying definition of innovation, as robustness checks show. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323729
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Advancing a global transition to clean energy: The role of international cooperation
Quitzow, Rainer; Thielges, Sonja; Goldthau, Andreas; … - 2019
transition. 3) Provide early market support to promote challenge-based energy innovation. …
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263837
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264224
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Incumbent innovation and entry by spinoff
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
incumbents are not willing or able to exploit. Accordingly, incumbent innovation determines exploitable knowledge externalities … for spinoffs while, at the same time, spinoffs are expected to influence incumbent innovation. To overcome this problem of … by spinoffs does, indeed, have a positive impact on incumbent innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266671
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The impact of technological and non-technological innovations on firm growth
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Martikainen, Olli - 2008
This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...
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