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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008

Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demo- graphics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...

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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...

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How and why does the efficiency of regional innovation systems differ?

Fritsch, Michael - 2002

in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains … in the efficiency of innovation activities can be found. This variation is in correspondence with a center … differences in efficiency of regional innovation systems can be explained by differences in R&D-cooperation behavior. …

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Survey Report on Research, Development, Innovation and Competitiveness in the Romanian Industry

Voinea, Liviu; Simionescu, Laura - 2015

and with the existence of a specialized R&D department. Product innovation increases foreign competitiveness, which is a …

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Virtual R&D Teams : A New Model for Product Development

Ale Ebrahim, Nader - 2015

Increased global competitions have urged small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to develop new products faster. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams in SMEs can offer a solution to speed up time-to-market of new product development (NPD). However, factors that affect the effectiveness of...

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Virtual Teams for NPD – An Innovative Experience for R&D Engineers

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2014

illustrates how to apply virtual interaction tools and integrate engineers into the innovation process. Management of virtual R …

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Patents as Collateral

Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Amable, Bruno - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 34 (2010) 6, pp. 1094-1104

This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....

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Patents as Collateral

Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Amable, Bruno - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2010), pp. 1094-1104

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Patents as Collateral

Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Bruno, Amable - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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Predicting Innovation Activity in European Manufacturing Firms : A Multi-Country Empirical Study

Papastathopoulos, Avraam - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence the Internal Process Innovation (IPI) Activity … manufacturing small, medium and large enterprises were examined and a set of hypotheses, regarding their innovation activity, were …) and the electronic information exchange between business partners are positively related to firm's process innovation …

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