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Garfagnini, Umberto; Strulovici, Bruno - 2010

We analyze social learning and innovation in an overlapping generations model in which available technologies have … path of a Brownian motion with drift. Marginal innovation consists in choosing a technology within the convex hull of … policies already explored and entails no direct cost. Radical innovation consists in experimenting beyond the frontier of that …

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Social learning and innovation cycles

Garfagnini, Umberto; Strulovici, Bruno - 2012

We study social learning and innovation in an overlapping generations model, emphasizing the trade-off between marginal … innovation (combining existing technologies) and radical innovation (breaking new ground). We characterize both short-term and … long-term dynamics of innovation, and the intergenerational accumulation of knowledge. Innovation cycles emerge …

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Technological clusters in Brazilian agriculture: Production and challenges

Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2017

This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now. We will summarize some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of...

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What Inspires Leisure Time Invention?

Davis, Lee N.; Davis, Jerome; Hoisl, Karin - 2009

This paper seeks to understand the intriguing but only sparsely explored phenomenon of “leisure time invention,” where the main underlying idea for the new product or process occurs when the inventor is away from the workplace. We add to previous research by focussing on the inventive...

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Measuring the Spillovers of Venture Capital

Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...

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Employee Performance and Mental Well-Being: The Mitigating Effects of Transformational Leadership during Crisis

Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental wellbeing has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...

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Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors?

Hoisl, Karin - 2007

Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism for transferring tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive performance. Additionally, existing research has neglected the differences in gains from a move between high...

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Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006

Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees’ Inventions...

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Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity

Hoisl, Karin - 2006

This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm...

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Fairness aspects in personnel scheduling

Wolbeck, Lena Antonia - 2019

In industries like health care, public transport or call centers a shift-based system ensures permanent availability of employees for covering needed services. The resource allocation problem - assigning employees to shifts - is known as personnel scheduling in literature and often aims at...

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