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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation (EPL) on innovation is … technologically advanced innovation. In this paper we find empirical evidence that both effects are at work - multinational … innovation in countries with low EPL. …
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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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productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning …
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, knowledge is actually becoming the principal value of reference in the new business model, and beyond business, may well prove … fast, lest many will fall behind and the “Knowledge Divide”, so much more important than the widely talked-about “Digital …
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, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …
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, knowledge is actually becoming the principal value of reference in the new business model, and beyond business, may well prove … fast, lest many will fall behind and the “Knowledge Divide”, so much more important than the widely talked-about “Digital …
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we remain largely unaware of it. If R&D seems to be an enabler of innovation, it is not sufficient by itself. Thus, the … use the linear model of innovation as the basis for policies to promote innovation? Is it not possible to go against the …
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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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L'innovation est souvent comprise et décrite comme le résultat d'une fonction particulière du système économique, par …, parfois confondus, de découverte, d'invention et d'innovation, et sur une définition aussi systématique que possible du … processus de conception sera un pas vers amélioration potentielle du processus d'innovation …
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