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SUMMARY:Exploring-by-Hiring: High-Skilled Migration as a Source of Explora
 tion?
DTSTART:20201207T170000
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DESCRIPTION:Wolf-Hendrik Uhlbach (Copenhagen Business School)\nWolf-Hendri
 k Uhlbach (Copenhagen Business School)\n"Exploring-by-Hiring: High-Skilled
  Migration as a Source of Exploration?"\nDiscussant: Dang Wang (Columbia B
 usiness School)\n\nAbstract\nThis paper examines how firms’ recruitment 
 of high-skilled foreign R&D workers affects firm-level exploration. We arg
 ue that by hiring foreign R&D workers\, firms are more likely to gain acce
 ss to novel and complementary knowledge\, which will foster exploration. E
 xamining a sample of 376 Danish R&D active firms over the period from 2001
  to 2013\, we show the effect is most pronounced when foreign R&D hires or
 iginate from geographical backgrounds that are represented to a lesser ext
 ent within firms’ incumbent R&D workforce. Moreover\, we show that this 
 effect holds\, even when the cognitive distance between these new hires an
 d firms’ incumbent R&D workforce is low. Finally\, we highlight the temp
 orary nature of this “exploration premium” as these results only hold 
 for newly hired foreign workers.\n\n\n\nEPFL Virtual Innovation Seminar\nE
 VIS is a bi-weekly virtual seminar series focusing on Science\, Technology
  and Innovation topics studied through the lens of Economics\, Entrepreneu
 rship\, Strategy and Finance.\n 
LOCATION:Zoom
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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