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Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
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of formal education and actual occupation for product innovation performance in manufacturing firms within a probit model … source of innovative activities within companies. Broken down by sectoral innovation patterns, this article examines the role … 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 inputs and outputs. We show that top management quality is an important determinant of corporate innovation, with … different individual aspects of management quality affecting innovation in younger and older firms differently. Further, firms … with higher top management quality engage in more risky (“explorative”) innovation strategies. Finally, hiring more and …
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innovative technologies. In doing so, it brings to the fore a two-way interaction between human capital and innovation. The paper … component, namely, education. In light of these potential trade-offs, governments in low-income countries need to use their …
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facilitated by training is complementary to innovation and technological change. Training incidence is found to be closely related … strategies that are related to innovation. Training is also greater where a firm emphasizes quality and a comprehensive human …
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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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