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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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Innovation and development around the world, 1960-2000
Lederman, Daniel - 2005
include measures of innovation outcomes as well as variables related to innovation effort. The main indicator of innovation … outputs is patents. The main variables related to innovation inputs are investment in research and development (R&D) and … of innovation outputs and inputs by looking at the over-time behavior of the relevant series and comparing the …
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Romania - Functional Review : Research, Development and Innovation Sector
World Bank - 2013
A functional review by the World Bank of Romania's research, development and innovation (RD&I) sector has been … World Bank Higher Education Review team and the EC's DG Research and Innovation -- presents observations and recommendations …
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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 …
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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...
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Patenting and research and development : a global view
Bosch, Mariano - 2005
"Using a new global data base on patents and innovation inputs, the authors examine the process of knowledge creation … developing countries by testing for the impact of measures of the functioning of the national innovation system-the set of …
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A Study of international fisheries research
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Indonesia : Research and Development Financing
World Bank - 2014
How much Indonesia spends on research and development (R and D) financing, where it spends it, and how it spends it, will affect the level of the country's growth for many years to come. Indonesia currently has the opportunity to consider the nature of its economic growth and where state...
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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...
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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...
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