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market and education and training systems, and the dynamics of knowledge creation and innovation at the enterprise …Recent work on national systems of innovation has argued that there are systemic relations between national labour …
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Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on invention, using data on U.S. patents’ Finnish...
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-level innovativeness. This observation has been explained by older employees working with outdated technological knowledge and being … particular turnover of R&D workers is deemed a vehicle for transfer of external knowledge to the firm, which can compensate for … lower cognitive flexibility and up-to-date knowledge among older workers. We use a matched employer-employee dataset based …
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characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …
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implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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We estimate the respective importance of spatial sorting and agglomeration economies in explaining the urban wage premium for workers with different sets of skills. Sorting is the main source of the wage premium. Agglomeration economies are in general small, but are larger for workers with...
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Using Norwegian Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data linked to public employment registers covering the years 2004 … - 2010, this paper investigates the relationship between employment growth prior to the event of innovation, innovation … process innovations, and reveal interdependencies between multi-faceted organizational capabilities, innovation output and …
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If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
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knowledge. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …
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