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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2009

The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...

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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …

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The Importance (or not) of Patents to UK Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013

innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …

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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Link, Albert N. - 2012

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

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Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven : A Field Experiment on eBay

Bar-Gill, Sagit; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hak, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

As more and more activities in the economy become digitized, analytics and data-driven decision-making (DDD) are becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) compared to large firms, and reliable causal estimates of the...

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