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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 study the evolution of an educational system which is founded on a hierarchical differentiation between technical and general education, with a superior social status attached to general. The resulting dynamic political equilibrium is best summarized by the ratio of vocational to general...
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-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into …
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In an overlapping generations model, rents to human capital play a key role in increasing savings. In the absence of such rents, the return to human capital is entirely appropriated by the old and accumulation is entirely determined by the income to fixed factors. If rents are introduced by...
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
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Several recent works point out that design is one of the main driver of innovation. Therefore, it is interesting to … knowledge by knoting in a ingenious way scattered knowledge. It depends on several cognitive, individual and social variables …
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Textbooks and manuals on management suggest that managers are heroes who deal with difficult problems of collective adaptation and change. American films are similarly built on the premise of a hero confronted with extremely difficult situations. What if this hero figure promoted for so long in...
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This paper analyzes the interrelationships between creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship as key enablers of an … entrepreneurial and innovation-oriented culture. Empirical results of exploring perceptions and opinions about these three concepts … traditional linear model of innovation and consider innovation strongly related to creativity but moderately related to …
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: imitation of Northern products; imitation and innovation; and finally, innovation only. In particular, the model has the …. First, because subsidies to Southern innovation benefit the North as well, it is beneficial to the North to pay for some of … these subsidies. Second, because the ability of the South to assimilate Northern knowledge and innovate depends on Southern …
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. Contrary to transfers and traditional regional policies, it is shown that a public policy that reduces the cost of innovation …
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