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Dumont, Michel; Merlevede, Bruno; Piette, Christophe; … - 2010

This paper analyses to what extent the decision to start exporting may be subject to spillovers of the internationalisation behaviour of other (foreign and domestic) firms. We distinguish between two possible channels: effects on productivity and effects on the perceived level of sunk costs of...

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Entrepreneurship Capital: A Regional, Organizational, Team, and Individual Phenomenon

Audretsch, David B.; Monsen, Erik - 2007

We review the role entrepreneurship capital in regional economic performance and extend it to explain the economic and … entrepreneurial performance of organizations, teams, and individuals. Drawing on entrepreneurship and social capital research, we …: entrepreneurship capital. We identify elements of entrepreneurship capital at and across the levels. Where there are gaps, we suggest …

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Ready to leave the ivory tower? Academic scientists' appeal to work in the private sector

Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - 2009

employment or entrepreneurship. Strong willingness to freely distribute research findings are related to a low appeal of private …

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The impact of universities on regional innovation: A critique and policy implications

Uyarra, Elvira - 2008

The impact of universities on the economic wellbeing and innovative potential of regions has been the object of intense scholarly and policy interest in the last years. Despite this interest, a clear picture is missing in relation to the roles universities are seen to play, the benefits of HEI...

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

Verheul, Ingrid; van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy - 2005

Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of … several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of … literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation and on female entrepreneurship …

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Success in pharmaceutical research: The changing role of scale and scope economies, spillovers and competition

Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of success in the development of new drugs. In specific, it explores the factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R&D competition and technological spillovers as...

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Knowledge Flows, R&D Spillovers and Innovation

Peri, Giovanni - 2003

Knowledge flows within and across countries should be carriers of important learning spillovers. We use data on 1.5 million patents and 4.5 million citations to analyze knowledge flows across 147 subnational regions. We estimate that only 15% of average knowledge is learned outside the average...

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The pecking order of cross-border investment

Daude, Christian; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2006

Is there a pecking order of cross-border investment in that countries become financially integrated primarily through some types of investment rather than others? Using a novel database of bilateral capital stocks for all types of investment – FDI, portfolio equity securities, debt securities...

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The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting: Threats and bargaining

Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin; Snoddy, Iain G. - 2022

In this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting. We allow the presence of unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order to fend off the threat of unionisation and through a...

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Driving Factors of the Subprime Crisis and Some Reform Proposals

Rudolph, Bernd; Scholz, Julia - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 3, pp. 14-19

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