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Firm-level Human Capital and Innovation: Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager’s education and tenure, and management team …’s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms’ innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager’s education that has a positive and …
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How reasonable is the reasonable royalty rate?: Damage rules and probabilistic intellectual property rights
Choi, Jay Pil - 2006
This paper investigates how different damage rules in patent infringement cases shape competition when intellectual property rights are probabilistic. I develop a simple model of oligopolistic competition to compare two main liability doctrines that have been used in the US to assess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263961
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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter - 2007
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing...
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Identifying Leadership Skills Required in the Digital Age
Klus, Milan Frederik; Müller, Julia - 2020
How should executives lead organisations and their employees in an increasingly digitalized business environment and what skills are needed to succeed? Although the evolution of digital technologies considerably changes working environments in organisations and creates new challenges for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207945
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Identifying Leadership Skills Required in the Digital Age
Klus, Milan - 2020
How should executives lead organisations and their employees in an increasingly digitalized business environment and what skills are needed to succeed? Although the evolution of digital technologies considerably changes working environments in organisations and creates new challenges for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838249
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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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Land Inequality, Education, and Marriage: Empirical Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2016
association between average formal education and the share of married women. This finding is in line with recent theoretical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555514
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Gender Quotas: Challenging the Boards, Performance, and the Stock Market
Ferrari, Giulia; Ferraro, Valeria; Profeta, Paola; … - 2016
, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower share of older members. We then use the reform period as an …
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Technology Adoption in Education: Usage, Spillovers and Student Achievement
Bergman, Peter Leopold S. - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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