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This paper explores the contribution of design activities on product market performance of Belgian companies. While there is mounting evidence that design can be seen as a strategic tool to successfully spur sales of new product developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has...
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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...
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This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
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R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and … gains from collaboration can be high initially, cost may start to outweigh those benefits if firms engage in multiple … collaborative projects simultaneously. This study explicitly considers a firm's collaboration intensity, that is, the share of …
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Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …
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and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating … successful innovations, inhouse R&D activities may be a particular challenge for SMEs due to high risk exposure, high fixed costs …, high minimum investment and severe financial constraints. SMEs may thus opt for refraining from R&D and relying more on …
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This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …
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This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …
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Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...
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