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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Knowledge spillovers"”.
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Cities, networks, and knowledge spillovers
… ideas, and geography still poses a barrier for knowledge exchange. This work contributes to our understanding of innovation by documenting three stylized facts about knowledge creation: the type of knowledge matters for new companies, complex knowledge is better produced in large cities, and …
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Investment and human capital externalities: knowledge spillovers
The more general concept of human capital includes any characteristic associated with the individual to provide a productivity differential. However, more often, this concept is reduced to education and experience of individuals. Much of the research begins with the assumption that there are human …
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Essays on Knowledge Spillovers and Transfer of Technical Knowledge
… dissertation explores the localized nature of knowledge spillovers and the role of intellectual property rights, particularly patents, in facilitating transfer of technical knowledge embodied in inventions. The first study examines the assumption that localization of patent citations reflects …
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The impact on knowledge spillovers on MNE ownership modes and sub-national locations: Evidence from India
The thesis investigates how FDI intra-industry spillovers are affected by MNE ownership modes and sub-national locations. A conceptual framework is developed which utilises IB theories to propose how MNE ownership modes and sub-national locations are likely to matter for FDI spillovers. The …
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Discontentment and knowledge spillovers in an emerging high-tech industry: a study of the emergence of the RFID industry
… and their collaborators use or encourage knowledge spillovers to fuel technological innovations during the emergence of a knowledge intensive industry. Drawing on theories of the entrepreneurial process, innovation during industry emergence, and knowledge spillovers, this thesis seeks to …
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The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers, Incubators and Accelerator Programmes on the Product Innovation of High-Tech Start-Ups: A Mixed Methods Approach
The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship (KTSE) focuses on exploring how entrepreneurs use uncommercialised knowledge spillovers into funding a new venture. This phenomenon explores the role of geographical proximity on the exploration of entrepreneurial opportunities that result in the …
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Is there a case for an augmented Tobin’s Q model of R&D investment? Investigating the role of market structure, knowledge spillovers and corporate governance quality
… for economists for a long time. However, our knowledge of the firm’s R&D investment behaviour remains somewhat fragmented. In this thesis, I postulate the idea of an augmented Tobin’s Q model, in which several different but not mutually exclusive theories can be considered together in …
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Operational Dynamics of Technology Diffusion: Evidence From Patenting Data
… The main questions are the extent to which knowledge spillovers (knowledge externalities) are geographically localized and their impact on the innovative performance of regions. The main hypothesis is that knowledge spillovers are space dependent because spatial proximity is important in the …
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Innovation and Growth: Theoretical Models and Analytical Simulations of Spatial, Clustering and Competition Effects
… three key areas. Firstly, innovation is based on knowledge spillovers. But knowledge spillovers are also subject to spatial characteristics in its transfer between firms, locations, regions and nations. Similarly, knowledge is used by innovators in many sectors, not just the sector where the …
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The endogeneity of science : the relationship of university research to industry and innovation
… to nearby universities, which I call "reverse knowledge spillovers". To address the endogeneity concerns due to selection of industry location, this study exploits the exogenous entry into plant biotechnology R&D by pre-existing agribusiness incumbents in non-biotechnology clusters. I find that …
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Innovación, diferenciación y fenómenos de aglomeración: un modelo evolucionista
… divisiones productivas de una empresa y los knowledge spillovers localizados en la región. Demostramos que el Modelado Basado en Agentes constituye una metodología idónea para este tipo de problemas complejos. ___________________________________________ We formalize a theoretical approach to …
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Modelling foreign direct investment in China
… model to study the interactions among FDI, knowledge spillovers and long run economic growth in a developing country. The ideas of endogenous product cycles and trade-related international knowledge spillovers are modified and extended to FDI. The major conclusion is that, in the presence of …
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The effect of financial liberalization on capital accumulation, endogenous growth, and interindustry wage differentials: The case of Taiwan
… A key hypothesis tested in the thesis is whether knowledge can create an increase in returns to capital through an external effect of knowledge spillovers on capital investment. If capital-related external effects do exist in an economy, then the importance of capital accumulation in the process …
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You Have to Play to Win: Value Capture in Open Innovation
… two parts. First, a theoretical model based on knowledge flows is introduced. Knowledge is at the heart of open innovation and this dissertation examines the role that external and internal knowledge play in firm performance outcomes. It integrates the dynamic capability view and open innovation …
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Essays on foreign direct investment and growth in the United States
… of FDI on growth at the state level. Because spillovers tend to be local in nature, such a focus gives a better understanding of the impact FDI can have in the growth process. Furthermore, because ownership should be conceptualized as an on-going relationship, this new stock measure, which …
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Essays on the economics of innovation
… I estimate the dynamic or inter-temporal knowledge spillovers resulting from corporate R&D in a setting with cumulative innovation, using a panel of US firms and a network of corporate patent citations. I show that the positive effect of dynamic spillovers on other firms' productivity is …
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Location Choice, Linkages and the Spatial Economy: Essays on Theory, Evidence and Heterodox Assessment
… than "flat". Nonmarket interactions, such as knowledge spillovers, innovation or amenity-based externalities, play a central role in this process. As economic activity is not evenly spread across space, a detailed understanding of the economic linkages between regions is key to the design of …
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Essays on wage and productivity disparities: empirical studies with a regional focus in Germany and Brazil
… Marshallian agglomeration economies, namely knowledge spillovers and labor market pooling, are jointly tested. It turns out that labor market pooling is the quantitatively most important agglomeration mechanism. It is captured by the correlation of the occupational composition between one …
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Collaborative intelligence and innovation in knowledge work
Knowledge work addresses complex problems whose solutions emerge through cycles of exploration, experimentation, and refinement. Increasingly, these problems are solved through collaboration between humans and technologies, with interactions that shift and adapt over time. This dissertation …
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