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Sectors and knowledge creation, accumulation and diffusion

Innovation and Firm Growth in High-Tech Sectors: A quantile regression approach

Submitted by chaves on 30 March, 2007 - 17:01.

Number: 
2006-04
Author(s): 
Alex Coad, CES-Matisse CNRS and Universite Paris 1
Rekha Rao, LEM

We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in four high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only modest growth and may grow for a number of reasons that may or may not be related to 'innovativeness'.  read more »

  • WP23
  • Firm growth
  • innovation
  • innovation policy
  • quantile regression
  • 1 attachment

Sensor Technology in The Netherlands: Collaborating to Turn Knowledge into Innovation?

Submitted by chaves on 30 March, 2007 - 16:58.

Number: 
2006-03
Author(s): 
Mathijs Huis in't Veld, Atemp
Koen Kittrich, RSM Erasmus University
Erik Stam, RSM Erasmus University

The Netherlands holds a strong position in fundamental sensor technology research, but this is not obviously translated into an internationally competitive sensor industry. In this paper we investigate whether sensor technology firms collaborate with external organizations, especially those related to public R&D.  read more »

  • WP23
  • Innovation systems
  • knowledge transfer
  • regional clusters
  • sensor technology
  • 1 attachment

Nanotechnology as a general purpose technology of the 21st century? - An overview with focus on Finland

Submitted by chaves on 30 March, 2007 - 16:24.

Number: 
2006-02
Author(s): 
Christopher Palmberg, Etlatieto/Reserach Institute of the Finnish Eonomy(ETLA)
Tuomo Nikulainen, Etlatieto/Reserach Institute of the Finnish Eonomy(ETLA)

Hardly any other field has received so much public R&D investments globally in such a short time as nanotechnology. Nanotechnology can be considered as an umbrella term for R&D at the nanometer scale (1-100 nm) where unique phenomena enable novel applications.  read more »

  • WP23
  • Finland
  • general purpose technology
  • industrial renewal
  • nanotechnology
  • 1 attachment

Entrepreneurship and the process of firms' entry, survival and growth

Submitted by chaves on 30 March, 2007 - 16:19.

Number: 
2006-01
Author(s): 
Enrico Santarelli, University of Bologna and MPI
Marco Vivarelli, Universita Cattolica and Centre for the study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and MPI

This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) and to characterise the founder's ex-ante features in terms of likely ex-post business performance.  read more »

  • WP23
  • entrepreneurship
  • new firm
  • post-entry performance
  • survival
  • 1 attachment
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