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Geolocated Communication Support in Rescue Management
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Efficient communication on base of consistent and up to date information is the key factor to cope with hard rescue missions. With the new generation of mobile devices local peer-to-peer...
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Government Spending Composition In A Simple Model Of Schumpeterian Growth
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation based economic growth. The authors construct a parsimonious Schumpeterian growth model in which demand from...
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Socioeconomic Heritage And Rapid Firm Growth
November 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. "Socioeconomic heritage" has to do with...
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Start-Ups, Long- And Short-Term Survivors And Their Effect On Regional Employment Growth
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002...
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The Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX)
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship INDEX (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of entrepreneurship across countries. The authors find the relationship between...
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R&D Subsidies To Start-Ups - Effective Drivers Of Patent Activity And Employment Growth?
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The present paper investigates the effectiveness of R&D subsidies given to start-ups. Taking an aggregate view rather than evaluating a single program, the authors estimate the impact of R&D...
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The Internationalization Of Science And Its Influence On Academic Entrepreneurship
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors conjecture that the mobility of academic scientists increases the propensity of such agents to engage in academic entrepreneurship. The empirical analysis is based on a survey of...
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Creative Industries, New Business Formation And Regional Economic Growth
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The present paper explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth...
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The "V-Factor": Distribution, Timing And Correlates Of The Great Indian Growth Turnaround
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the past two decades or so there has been a remarkable turnaround in Indian growth. From 1960 to 1985 output per capita in India (measured by real net domestic product1) grew by only 1.28% per...
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The Role Of R&D In New Firm Growth
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth in capitalist economies However, there is still no consensus on what effects innovation activities have for the growth of start-ups....
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Creative Destruction And Regional Productivity Growth: Evidence From The Dutch Manufacturing And Services Industries
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Do firm entry and exit improve the competitiveness of regions? If so, is this a universal mechanism or is it contingent on the type of industry or region in which creative destruction takes place?...
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Trust, Confidence And Economic Growth An Evaluation Of The Beugelsdijk Hypothesis
October 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey's question "In general, do you think that most people can be trusted, or that...
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The Role Of Preferences In Disagreements Over Scientific Hypothesis: An Empirical Inquiry Into Environmental And Economic Decision Making
March 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Porter hypothesis suggests that environmental regulations, such as restricting firms to reduce pollution, stimulates innovations and create a win-win situation for the environment and for...
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Productivity In Contests: Organizational Culture And Personality Effects
July 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the interaction of organizational culture and personal prosocial orientation in team work where teams compete against each other. In a computerized lab experiment with minimal...
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The Regional Dimension Of Sectoral Innovativeness An Empirical Investigation Of Two Specialised Supplier And Two Science-Based Industries
May 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry's innovative output. Two mechanisms are therefore tested, i.e. agglomeration economies...
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Product Diversification And Labor Productivity Dispersion In German Manufacturing Industries
April 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Empirical research has shown tremendous productivity differences, even within narrowly defined industries. A great host of studies is explaining this productivity disparity by factors such as...
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Institutions, Culture, And Open Source
February 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called Open Source Software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the...
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Globalization And The Rise Of The Entrepreneurial Economy
April 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper argues that globalization has led to a shift in developed countries from an industrial to an entrepreneurial model of production. Globalization is interpreted as a level shock in the...
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What Determines The Efficiency Of Regional Innovation Systems?
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors assess the efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function. This function relates private sector Research and Development (R&D)...
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Competition In Product Design: An Experiment Exploring Innovation Behavior
May 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors experimentally investigate competition in innovation in a patent race scenario. Pairs of subjects compete as seller firms on a duopoly market, engaging in risky search investments....
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High Growth Entrepreneurs, Public Policies And Economic Growth
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates whether the presence of ambitious entrepreneurs is a more important determinant of national economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. The authors use data...
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Industry Specialization, Diversity And The Efficiency Of Regional Innovation Systems
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors...
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The Localization Of Entrepreneurship Capital - Evidence From Germany
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Whereas initially physical capital and later, knowledge capital were viewed as crucial for growth, more recently a very different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a driving force...
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Building A Better Rat Trap: Technological Innovation, Human Capital And The Irula
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the non-profit Center for the Development of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural...
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Innovation Networks Of High Tech SMES: Creation Of Knowledge But No Creation Of Value
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and process innovation and sales growth of high technology SMEs. Innovation networks are positively related to both product and...
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Prior Knowledge And Entrepreneurial Innovative Success
August 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at the stage of firm formation. The authors distinguish between different kinds...
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory Of Entrepreneurship And Foreign Direct Investment
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based...
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What Is The Value Of Entrepreneurship? A Review Of Recent Research
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic...
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The Knowledge Filter, Entrepreneurship, And Economic Growth
May 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. According to the "New growth theory,"...
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Firm Growth And Productivity Growth: Evidence From A Panel VAR
December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper offers new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a reduced form Vector AutoRegression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. The authors...
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Exports And Productivity Growth - First Evidence From A Continuous Treatment Approach
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not...
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Firm Growth And Scaling Of Growth Rate Variance In Multiplant Firms
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
While Gibrat's Law assumes that growth rate variance is independent of size, empirical work has usually found a negative relationship between growth rate variance and firm growth. Using data on...
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Public Health Policy Decisions On Medical Innovations: What Role Can Early Economic Evaluation Play?
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
The contribution aims to explore the different ways in which early economic data can inform public health policy decisions on new medical technologies. A broad explorative literature research was...
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Diffusion And Competition Of Innovative Cardiological Technologies
December 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
The paper aims to investigate the diffusion process of two competing innovative technologies in the health care sector. Novelties in cardiovascular surgery will serve as an example. Using a rather...
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Growth, Development And Structural Change Of Innovator Networks The Case Of Jena
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors attempt to extend the static analysis of innovator networks by providing case study based insights into the dynamic, developmental or evolutionary pattern of such networks. In the...
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Creating Strategic Advantage Through Entrepreneurial Governance In New Ventures
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests...
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A Theory Of Destructive Entrepreneurship
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth...
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Functional Chains Of Knowledge Management - Effects On Firms' Innovative Performance
November 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for the innovation success of firms. It is assumed that the functional chains of KM lead directly and indirectly to...
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Demography And Innovative Entrepreneurship
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this paper, the authors analyze the relationship between age structure and...
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Measuring Regional Innovativeness A Methodological Discussion And An Application To One German Industry
September 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The regional or national innovation performance has been repeatedly measured in the literature; but it has so far not been discussed what this means, especially in relation to a region. What is...
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