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This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …
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information. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of … detailed measures of knowledge outputs, knowledge investments, and sources of existing knowledge. We find that globally engaged …
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knowledge accumulates as technology progresses, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational … negative implications for growth. I develop a formal model of this "knowledge burden mechanism" and derive six testable … sufficiently rapid increase in the burden of knowledge. In cross-section, the model predicts that specialization and teamwork will …
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"This book illustrates new approaches to service innovation and new methodologies from the knowledge science and system …New trends in service science and education for service innovation / Michitaka Kosaka, Kunio Shirahada -- A concept of … -- Modeling of service value creation based on multidisciplinary framework / Kotaro Nakamura -- The dynamics of knowledge co …
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-system innovation management: concepts and applications / Oliver Yu -- Knowledge and quality innovation in the health sector: the role …-linguistic programming in nonprofit organizations: facilitating knowledge and learning capabilities for innovation / Eric Kong, Mark Farrell …-Martínez, Ignacio Fernández-De-Lucio -- The role of knowledge sharing on organisational innovation: an integrated framework / Kijpokin …
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"This book evaluates some of the existing approaches to information retrieval and summarization of digital documents, as well as highlighting current research and future developments"--Provided by publisher.
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Innovation is often predicated on discovering useful new combinations of existing knowledge in highly complex knowledge …, and particle physics. We develop a combinatorial-based knowledge production function and embed it in the classic Jones …. This production function is a generalization (and reinterpretation) of the Romer/Jones knowledge production function …
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The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … innovators can draw. Both of these are endogenous: Investments in innovations are affected by the pool of knowledge and the … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are …
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This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the canonical model of education and the wage structure pioneered by Tinbergen (1975) and developed more fully by Goldin and Katz (2007). I also review...
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