This study explores the role of U.S. ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities for international technology transfer to their home countries. U.S. ethnic researchers are quantified through an ethnicname database and individual patent records. International patent citations confirm knowledge diffuses through ethnic networks, and manufacturing output in foreign countries increases with an...

Intellectual property financing is a new way to effectively alleviate the difficulties of technology-based SMEs. securitization and intellectual pledge complement promote each other, which conducive broadening channels small medium-sized enterprises, improving environment for innovation development market entities, promoting virtuous cycle resources. China has gradually paid more attention prot...

Supply-hubs, supported by information sharing technologies, are being used by contract manufacturers in hi-tech industries to streamline their supply-side inventory management, in response to shortening product lifecycles and the necessity of configuring goods to order. In this paper, we develop a linear programming model for integrated planning and scheduling of supply hub activities. We assum...

The transition to the New Economy accelerated in the last half of the 1990s. Using new economy index measures, one can see that rapid growth in service sector activity from 1990 to 2000, at 45 percent, overshadowed the performance of the nation’s manufacturing sector, at 22 percent (Atkinson and Court). We now live in an economy where 80 percent of all workers do not produce things. Even within...

In the wave of globalization, as a way of the international transfer of capital, outsourcing is developing very rapidly. There are many researches on the economic effects of outsourcing, this article use the China's economic data during the economic development and build a regression model of the economic effect, and analysis the four effect of outsourcing on our country. The results show that ...

This paper investigates the effects of family ownership on export using rich data on Italian firms. We find that family ownership increases the probability that firms export. This benefit is especially pronounced when family owners retain control rights and seek the support of external managers. The results suggest that families better internalize the long-run benefits of internationalization, ...

Patent trolls have changed the innovation and patent policy landscape. This thesis is an empirical event study that focuses on two landmark cases of patent troll litigation, RIM v. NTP and eBay v. Mercexchange, to determine whether pro-troll litigation outcomes significantly impact the market values of the firms in the high-tech industries they target. I find that the Supreme Court ruling in eB...

A high level of innovativeness and technology complexity is most often associated with a faster more dynamic pace economic development. In turn, it enables enterprises to achieve better financial results strengthen their competitive advantage. Despite these potential benefits, in practice, innovation also the need take up new challenges, which may be accompanied by higher risk. The main goal re...

In addition to internal R&D, external knowledge is widely considered as an essential lever for innovative performance. This paper analyzes knowledge spillovers in supply chain networks. Specifically, we investigate how supplier innovation is impacted by buyer innovation. Financial accounting data is combined with supply chain relationship data and patent data for U.S. firms in high tech industr...

This paper analyses the geographical concentration of 32 manufacturing sectors over the 1972-1996 period, based on annual employment and export data for 13 European countries. Concentration has increased continuously over the sample period in employment terms, while remaining roughly unchanged in export terms. On average, increases in concentration were stronger prior to the launch of the Singl...