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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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, 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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, 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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mechanism, we develop a theory of an economy where firms with heterogeneous demands use labor and knowledge to produce …. Entrepreneurs decide the number of layers of management and the knowledge and span of control of each agent. As a result, in the …
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This Paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...
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Defence innovation systems are structured around two main groups of players that interact in the development of complex … since the 1990s have affected the division of labour and knowledge in the industry. In this paper we show the origins of … the new capabilities that have been created within the national innovation system (NIS). We explain how the role and the …
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IT Technologies are said to make access to learning easier and cheaper. Virtually all theorical knowledge is available …
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Our so-called "Information Society", is gradually changing into a "Knowledge Society". The Shannons Theory provided a …. This paper proposes a transposition of this theory for knowledge. From the three axes of a formal model designed for … knowledge engineering (information, sense and context), three quantitative measures are proposed to get a measure of the …
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This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as … perspective on the meaning, as well as the role, of knowledge and beliefs in economics in the future. Possible lines of future … action are discussed.A platform for future research and investigation into the role of knowledge and beliefs in economics …
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