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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"knowledge spillover"”.
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Patent abandonment and subsequent cumulative inventions
… patent, which creates a larger and broader knowledge spillover pool. Further, the firm’s patent abandonment can be a positive-sum game, in which the focal firm can also benefit by identifying distant knowledge as well as potential new inventors’ inventions. This patent abandonment allows the …
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The role of university-business interaction in knowledge system and its effect on growth
Knowledge is recognised as the driver of productivity and economic growth, and its role is still being developed. The development of growth theory results in the focus of knowledge shifting from knowledge investment to knowledge spillover. In the meantime, links between knowledge actors are the …
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Are Out-Of-Period Adjustments a Type of Stealth Restatement? An Examination of Non-Audit Services, Clawback Provisions, and Out-Of-Period Adjustments
… an auditor providing NAS could exhibit knowledge spillover preventing accounting misconduct and improving financial reporting quality. Another facet that could impact the trend in OOPAs is the initiation of clawback provisions. These provisions could be triggered by material restatements …
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Rethinking innovation : the knowledge spill over strategic entrepreneurship In micro and small firms in Nigeria
… on big firms in advanced countries. Employing knowledge spillover theory of strategic entrepreneurship and using case study of selected micro and small firms in Nigeria, the study contextualises (i.e consider what is innovative to be context dependent) innovation, stripped of its contextual …
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Entrepreneurship in the Knowledge Based Economy: A Spatial Analysis of Great Britain 2008-2010
… as an important component of the contemporary knowledge based economy and crucial to the attainment of economic growth and development. However, entrepreneurial activity varies significantly across space within countries. This thesis makes an original contribution by examining the determinants …
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Determinants of soybean adoption and performance in northern Ghana
… spatial autoregressive dependence and knowledge spillover in soybean yields among smallholder female farmers within spatial networks. This finding provides guidance for agricultural development programs about the importance of social interaction and information provision through farmer …
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Free trade and economic growth of Egypt
… which not only helps them to benefit from knowledge spillover but also to raise their productivity. The role of human capital in growth and exports was also shown to be significant. Similar findings were obtained for countries at different stages of development (low- and middle-income). It …
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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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Merger and Acquisition Financial Reporting Outcomes: An Examination of Non-Audit Fees and the Impact on Auditor Independence
… and the other on the benefits attained from knowledge spillover. Though these competing effects have been studied in various contexts, there has been little to no research on the association between NAS and the outcomes from mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to infer whether NAS lessens the …
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Three papers in urban and regional economic and development
… economies, labor market matching and knowledge spillover are considered to be two of the primary micro-foundations. Most empirical literature has found sizeable positive effects from labor market matching (Heuermann et al., 2010; Melo et al., 2009). However, there is far less consensus …
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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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Essays in Empirical Labour Economics
… gain when moving into high-quality peers. Knowledge spillover and peer pressure are likely important mechanisms in explaining our findings. The third chapter studies the worker-, firm- and sector-level adjustment to robots. Combining detailed matched employer-employee data for Italy over …
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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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How small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can influence the successfulness of a partnership with a large company (LCO) in the technology innovation sector
… open to new ideas, being in the form of knowledge and capabilities. The reality is, however, that many partnerships fail. For an SME whose growth is dependant on a partnership with an LCO, understanding how it can influence the partnership such that it will result in success is critically …
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Essays on spatial, health, and socioeconomic interactions
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms