Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are …