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Italian industrial districts: a model of success or a weak productive system?

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

development model, based on SMEs, which is founded on the specialization of productions, on innovation and internationalization …

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Italian industrial districts: a model of success or a weak productive system?

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

development model, based on SMEs, which is founded on the specialization of productions, on innovation and internationalization …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257913

Procuring Innovation

Cabral, Luís M B; Cozzi, Guido; Denicolò, Vincenzo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … consider a menu of procurement methods and policies for best procuring new knowledge and innovative products, discussing their … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We …

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Do Nations Combine O-Rings with Cobb-Douglas? Evidence from agriculture, equipment production, and the informal sector

Oasis, Kodila-Tedika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The article focuses on the conditional relationship between various human capital proxies and the size of potential “O-Ring” or “Cobb-Douglas” sectors. We find that that years of schooling are a robust negative predictor of the size of the informal sector, conditioned on national average...

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Intangible training capital and productivity in Europe

O’Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper employs industry data, derived from linking the EU LFS to productivity accounts from EU KLEMS, to examine workforce training and productivity in European Union original members states. Training activities are modelled as intangible investments by firms and cumulated to stocks so their...

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Is body mass human capital in sports? Outcome of globalization of sumo wrestling and generation of human capital in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with wrestlers’ winning rate and absence rate. Further, the effect of BMI is compared between an early period (before the emergence of foreign...

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Human Capital Investment through Education and Training: an Overview

Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We present in this paper the real importance and very contemporary human capital investment. Through a quantitative analysis, we present the level of human capital accumulation that countries are able to achieve. We also examine the significant part occupied by educational expenditure in the...

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On the spatial diffusion of knowledge by universities located in small and medium sized towns

Rego, Conceição; Caleiro, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

a higher level of education and R&D. The relationship between the acquisition of knowledge and institutional education … innovation, enterprise spirit and management capacity. Given that higher education institutions, in general, and universities, in … particular, are obviously crucial in the process of knowledge increase, it becomes important to analyse how can these …

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Positive self-image over time

Santos-Pinto, Luís - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper incorporates egocentric comparisons into a human capital accumulation model and studies the evolution of positive self image over time. The paper shows that the process of human capital accumulation together with egocentric comparisons imply that positive self image of a cohort is...

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The Influence of a wife’s working status on her husband’s accumulation of human capital.

Mano, Yukichi; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Japanese household-level data describing a husband's earnings, his wife's working status, and their schooling levels are used to test the implications of a model proposing a time-consuming process of human capital accumulation within marriages, in which an educated wife is more productive. The...

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