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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 …

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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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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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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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Knowledge-based Economic Development as a Unifying Vision in a Post-awakening Arab World

Schwalje, Wes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This article traces the evolution of knowledge-based economic development in the Arab World. In pursuing this objective … effectiveness of Arab investments in human capital shows marginal progress towards knowledge-based development over the last decade … employers relegates Arab businesses to contesting lower-skilled, non-knowledge intensive industries which has stalled knowledge …

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Effectiveness of HRD for developing SMEs in South Asia

Ahmed, Vaqar; Wahab, Mohammad Abdul; Mahmood, Hamid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

questions for the national governments in the context of employable skills, space for entrepreneurship, innovation and economic …

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Determinants of Labor Productivity in Iran’s Manufacturing Firms: With Emphasis on Labor Education and Training

Fallahi, Firouz; Sakineh, Sojoodi; Mehin Aslaninia, Nasim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In an era of globalized competition, productivity has become a crucial factor determining profitability, competitiveness and the growth of a firm. High productivity means lower per unit cost and, therefore, ability of the firm to match prices on the global markets. Because of that, there has...

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Training, education and productivity

Carmichael, Fiona; Ercolani, Marco; Kang, Lili; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of training and education on productivity, in particular linking to a literature that emphasizes the need to reorganise production following adoption of ICT. The paper examines training at the total economy level and variation across industries, focusing...

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Productivity dispersion and the roles of quality of labour input and competition: A case of Vietnamese manufacturing sector

Doan, Tinh; Nguyen, Ha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the roles of cost of labour input and competition on productivity dispersion in the Vietnamese manufacturing sector. We look at the effect accounting for labour input quality has on explaining productivity dispersion. This paper tests the hypothesis that mismeasurement of...

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Skill bias, age and organizational change

O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper considers evidence on the impact of ICT on demand for different types of workers, focusing in particular on the age dimension. It first examines data from EUKLEMS using regressions standard in the literature and suggests ICT may have adversely affected older workers, in particular...

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