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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention
Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010
This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian...
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DELPHI: O Futuro da Moda de Santa Catarina ? Previsões entre 2008 e 2012
Locks, Eliza Bianchini Dallanhol; Martignago, Graciella; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2009
Este artigo apresenta o resultado da pesquisa sobre ?O Futuro da Moda em Santa Catarina?. Os resultados apresentados correspondem a uma pesquisa DELPHI realizada com especialistas do setor, compostos por empresários e acadêmicos. O objetivo fundamental foi o de identificar o cenário...
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When the innovator fails to capture rents from innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013
innovation, the business and social ties connecting firms deepen the hazards associated to the appropriation of rents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011140921
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Impact of the types of clusters on the innovation output and the appropriation of rents from innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013
The ability to generate innovations and capture the rents from innovation are important for firms’ competitive … innovation output, the knowledge flows among the clustered firms and, ultimately, on who captures the rents from innovation. The … rents from innovation. Extant research has noted that the social and business networks binding firms in clusters are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011140922
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Communities, Knowledge, and Innovation: Indian Immigrants in the US Semiconductor Industry
Almeida, Paul; Phene, Anupama; Li, Sali - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2010
This paper investigates the influence of technological, geographic, and ethnic communities on the innovativeness of Indian inventors. We study Indian inventors in the semiconductor industry in the US and examine their patenting profiles between 1975 and 1999 to identify the influences on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529093
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Open and closed industry clusters: The social structure of innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando A. Ribeiro - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2008
In this paper we discuss knowledge and innovation in clusters and the benefits of clustering from a knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005736309
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Financial Institutions and The Wealth of Nations: Tales of Development
Tong, Jian; Xu, Chenggang - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the … innovation. However, this regime requires more decentralized decision-making, which in turn depend on contract enforcement. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677512
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An Investigation of Firm-Level R&D Capabilities in East Asia
Jefferson, Gary H.; Kaifeng, Zhong - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
This paper uses a survey of 1,826 firms distributed over ten East Asian metropolitan areas – Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, and five Chinese cities – to investigate the sources of firm-level R&D capabilities. The analysis identifies the impact of 23 survey variables, classified by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677418
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Russian Firms in Transition: Champions, Challengers, and Chaff
Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1996
This paper proposes a composite measure to evaluate a firm's survival potential. The composite measure is applied to 51 Russian firms located in Moscow, Volgograd, Rostov and Taganrog, utilizing data collected in 1995 from in-depth interviews with top-level managers of manufacturing, trade, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784767
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Depreciation and Russian Corporate Finance: A Pragmatic Approach to Surviving thr Transition
Linz, Susan L. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1997
Are Russian firms being allowed to clean the slate with respect to the Soviet legacy of obsolete capital stock? If estimates of capital productivity and firm-level efficiency in Soviet industry are correct, enterprise managers in Russia's emerging market economy will lobby for high depreciation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784787