<Para ID="Par2">Dieser Artikel betrachtet die Legitimität kreierenden Bemühungen des Unternehmens Better Place, einem internationalen Gründungsunternehmen, welches Infrastruktur-Services für Elektrofahrzeuge anbietet. Wir analysieren die aufkommende Debatte über Versuche Better Place’s, die wichtigsten...</para>

Internationalization through business model innovation involves the creation, or reinvention, of the business itself. This paper aims to integrate basic insight from the literature on business model innovation, internationalization of the firm, international entrepreneurship, and global...

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Using a cross-section of countries, we adapt Frankel and Romer's (1999) IV strategy to international labor mobility. Controlling for institutional quality, trade, and financial openness, we establish a robust and non-negative causal effect of immigration on real percapita income.

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Any economic criteria for an ecient allocation of resources is based on marginal \thinking". Such criteria can equally be applied to the evaluation of the public allocation of R&D funds. Dierently from the usual evaluation schemes - mainly dichotomous - this study implements the continuous...

Recent studies have concluded that R&D grants can induce firms to export and that exporting and innovating can be complementary activities at the firm level. Yet the trade literature has paid little attention to the scope of innovation policy as a stimulus to both trade and innovation. To...

With aggregate sales by foreign affiliates exceeding world exports, determinants of FDI patterns have received great attention, while the timing of their surge has been understudied. Recent evidence indicates that transportation costs of goods have fallen too little to explain these figures...

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While determinants of FDI patterns have received widespread attention, the timing of their surge remains largely unexplained. According to the proximity–concentration trade-off argument, a surge in FDI in times of decaying international transportation costs seemingly represents a paradox....