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Internal and External R&D: A Sample Selection Approach

Vivarelli, Marco; Piga, Claudio - 2003

This study explicitly takes into account that the decision to enter into an external R&D relationship is related to an antecedent decision to carry out R&D. This calls for a methodological approach that, at the same time, permits the joint analysis of the determinants of the two decisions and...

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Technological and Organizational Changes as Determinants of the Skill Bias: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms

Piva, Mariacristina; Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - 2004

Recent empirical literature has introduced the "kill Biased Organizational Change" hypothesis, according to which organizational change can be considered as one of the main causes of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skiled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in...

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The impact of intellectual property rights on international self-employed rates

Burke, Andrew E.; Fraser, Stuart - 2005

The importance of IPR regimes for large firm innovation is well documented but less is known about their impact on typically less innovative self-employed entrepreneurship. The paper sets out to estimate the net effect of the various elements that comprise an IPR regime including the political...

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Governance Structures, Efficiency, and Firm Profitability

Lehmann, Erik E.; Warning, Susanne; Weigand, Jürgen - 2004

Using a panel data set of 361 German corporations for the period 1991 to 1996 we test the hypothesis that firms with more efficient governance structures have higher profitability. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to ownership concentration, the identity of owners, capital...

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Can Institutional Change Impact High-Technology Firm Growth?: Evidence from Germany's Neuer Markt

Audretsch, David B.; Elston, Julie Ann - 2004

To facilitate the transformation of the German economy from the traditional manufacturing industries towards emerging new technologies, a new segment of the Frankfurt exchange was introduced in 1997 - Der Neue Markt. This study provides evidence that not only did many new firms obtain funding...

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New Firm Survival and Human Capital

Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004

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Entrepreneurship Capital: Determinants and Impact on Regional Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - 2005

entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and …-tually influence economic performance by generating more entrepreneurial activity. The purpose of this paper is explicitly link these …-ship capital has a positive impact on regional economic performance. …

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - 2004

The neoclassical model of the production, as applied by Robert Solow to built the neoclassical model of growth, linked labor and capital to output. More recently, Romer and others have expanded the model to include measures of knowledge capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor,...

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Entrepreneurship capital : determinants and impact

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - 2004

entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and … actually influence economic performance by generating more entrepreneurial activity. The purpose of this paper is to explicitly … capital has a positive impact on regional economic performance. …

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