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Teaming up with large R&D investors : good or bad for knowledge production and diffusion?

Amoroso, Sara; Vannuccini, Simone - 2019

design of innovation policies aimed at R&D collaboration and technology diffusion. …

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Sources of knowledge used by entrepreneurial firms in the European high-tech sector

Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between an entrepreneur's experience and education and his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using … of experience, age, and education of the firm's primary founder on the perceived importance of (i.e., use of) alternative …

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How the "EU Innovation Champions" successfully absorbed and reacted to the shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

De Massis, Alfredo; Di Minin, Alberto; Marullo, Cristina; … - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic presented great challenges, but also opportunities, to SMEs across Europe. We examine how the … and business leaders both within and outside the European Union with insights to enhance the capability of SMEs to succeed …

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Heterogeneity of technology-specific R&D investments : evidence from top R&D investors worldwide

Gkotsis, Petros; Vezzani, Antonio - 2018

In this work, we develop and apply a methodology to estimate technology-specific R&D investments at the firm level and then use these to test some arguments that have become central in the innovation literature. In particular, we first combine R&D investments with patent data of the world top...

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Persistent heterogeneity of R&D intensities within sectors : evidence and policy implications

Coad, Alexander - 2017

Do firms in the same sector converge towards the same R&D intensities? Previous research has often assumed this to be true. A closer examination, using microdata from the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard for the years 2000-2015, shows a large amount of heterogeneity in R&D intensities...

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Manufacturing the future : is the manufacturing sector a driver of R&D, exports and productivity growth?

Coad, Alexander; Vezzani, Antonio - 2017

Many industrialized countries in Europe and North America have experienced a steady decline in the manufacturing sector over the last few decades. Amid growing concerns that outsourcing and offshoring have destabilized European economies, policymakers have suggested that a large manufacturing...

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EU corporate R&D intensity gap : what has changed over the last decade?

Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro - 2016

This paper contributes with new findings to the literature on corporate research and development (R&D) intensity decomposition by examining the effects of several parameters on R&D intensity and investigating its comparative distribution among top R&D firms, sectors and world regions/countries....

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Sector dynamics and demographics of top R&D firms in the global economy

Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro - 2016

This paper investigates the sectoral dynamics of the major economies during the last decade through the lens of the top 1000 R&D investors worldwide and looks at how firms' demographics are related to sector distribution. In doing so, it contributes to the literature on the EU corporate R&D...

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From R&D to market : using trademarks to capture the market capability of top R&D investors

Castaldi, Carolina; Dosso, Mafini - 2018

This paper investigates the links between the market capability of top corporate R&D investors (EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboards), as captured by trademark data and their economic performance in terms of net sales growth. It provides empirical evidence to better understand the extent to...

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Labor mobility from R&D-intensive multinational companies : implications for knowledge and technology

Holm, Jacob Rubæk; Timmermans, Bram; Østergaard, … - 2019

Private sector R&D is largely concentrated in a few multinational companies (MNCs), which thus play an important role in the creation of knowledge and technology in the economy. The mobility of labor between these firms and the rest of the economy is therefore an important mechanism for the...

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