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This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
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. Recognizing that STEM fields contribute to high-quality job growth and economic innovation, Congress reauthorized the America …
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We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
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distinguishing between SEWEs and SEWNEs in drawing valid conclusions concerning any link between entrepreneurship and economic …
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production, and innovation. Therefore, key country and individual-level factors driving entrepreneurship have been explored in …Entrepreneurship has become an important tool for job creation, economic growth, improvements in productivity and …
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source of innovative activities within companies. Broken down by sectoral innovation patterns, this article examines the role … of formal education and actual occupation for product innovation performance in manufacturing firms within a probit model … to the Pavitt classification. Sectors with a high share of highly skilled employees engage in product innovation above …
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We design a performance-on-structure experiment, where performance is measured by innovation outcomes and structure is …, patents normalized by R&D intensity, patent citations, and citations per patent to measure innovation outcomes. A firm … market or to develop the human capital of existing employees and 2) how it adjusts capital investment in innovation to match …
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&D investment proactively and contemporaneously. Firm-level innovation outcome, measured by patents and citations, declined for …
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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
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between innovation and growth in young firms. To this end, this paper develops an augmented YIC categorization that also … includes non-R&D innovators and young firms that conduct R&D but have not yet brought an innovation to the market. Using panel …-R&Doriented YICs, typically focused on the 'Learning by Doing, Using, and Interacting' (DUI) mode of innovation, exhibit a distinct …
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