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Entrepreneurship in advanced and developing countries: A microeconomic perspective

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...

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Innovation, Employment and Skills inAdvanced and Developing Countries:A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...

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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistentand more erratic. Moreover, our results … suggest that firm and market characteristics play adistinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of different age …

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Job Creation Effects of R&D Expenditures: Are High-tech Sectors the Key?

Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2011

In this paper we assess the job creation effect of R&D expenditures, using a unique longitudinal database of 677 European companies over the period 1990-2008. We estimate a dynamic labour demand specification using a Least Squares Dummy Variable Corrected (LSDVC) technique. The labour-friendly...

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Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction

Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019

This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...

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Beyond R&D: The role of embodied technological change in affecting employment

Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2018

statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment …

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Embodied and disembodied technological change: The sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction

Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019

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Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies: A survey and some methodological issues

Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019

The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the state of the art in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of entrepreneurship will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic and...

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The role of innovation in industrial dynamics and productivity growth: a survey of the literature

Ugur, Mehment; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

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