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This paper compares the structure and the development of new firm formation activity in three German regions. The two East German regions, Dresden and Rostock, show significantly higher start-up rates than the West German region Karlsruhe. The analysis of entry cohorts reveals that not only the...
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We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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innovation process and capitalization on scientific resources in order to improve this vital process. To achieve this, a … incremental innovation by using knowledge generated by universities or research institutes. …
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This paper attempts to give an economic perspective of the impact of the innovation industries. The estimation method …, as higher employment and wages/capita in innovation industries are accompanied by higher employment and lower … influence of research and development activities. All these effects point to the sustainability of innovation industries, which …
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Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
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This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate for the first time the links between innovation activities …
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refocus the debate and analyses the economic issues, impacts and implications of the innovation clusters policy. To do this … cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster "potentiates", by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these …
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Motivated by the recent reversal in labor productivity growth, this paper is analyzing the relationship between R&D expenditures and productivity. Time series data of the German manufacturing industry is used to estimate a variable cost function, with the stock of knowledge being modeled as a...
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Modern (endogenous) growth theory tells us that knowledge spillovers are crucial for the growth of high-income economies. Against this background the paper provides a survey of theoretical and empirical findings highlighting the question of how geographically limited knowledge diffusion can help...
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spurring innovation (Section 5). The third group focuses on the financing of innovation (Section 6). Section 7 concludes. …
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