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Job Creation and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing

Armington, Catherine; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2003

An important new literature on gross employment flows has produced a great outpouring of stylized facts. In this paper we examine one aspect of this literature through the lens of dynamic models and theories of industrial evolution. We extend the Davis and Haltiwanger methodology for analysis of...

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Firm Competitive Strategies and the Likelihood of Survival : The Spanish Case

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Moreno Serrano, Rosina - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

This paper analyses the impact that some managerial competitive strategies followed by a firm may have on its survival. We have not only considered the classic strategies related to the passive learning process defined by Jovanovic (e.g., R&D or advertisement expenses), but we have also taken...

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The influence of Geographic Clusters and Knowledge Spillovers on the Product Innovation Activities of New Ventures

Gilbert, Brett Anitra; Kusar, Mika Tatum - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

and exploitative innovation activities.... …

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One or Many Knowledge Production Functions? Mapping Innovation Activity Using Microdata

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm's own formal R&D activities and at the acqusition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...

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Innovation, strategic renewal and its effect on small firm performance

Folkeringa, Mickey; Meijaard, Joris; Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

strategic renewal, including process innovation and knowledge management. In our regression analyses we explain the variation in …

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The Missing Link

Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link...

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Entrepreneurship and the Innovation Ecosystem Policy Lessons from the United States

Wessner, Charles W. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

Germany and the United States face a common challenge in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship to maintain their … innovation to commercial reality.. …

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Regional Innovation in the US over Space and Time

Acs, Zoltán J.; Varga, Attila; Anselin, Luc - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2003

consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building … on a recently developed cross sectional-time series data set of US innovation, private and university research and high …

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …

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The Impact of Geographic Differences inHuman Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

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