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of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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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 …
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Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …
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To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
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representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
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As knowledge production becomes more specialized, studying complex and multi-faceted empirical realities becomes more … innovation studies and project management, we show that the sharing of concepts and empirical domains can have ambivalent effects …
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experience significantly better innovation outcomes, as measured by patents and future citations. We obtain these results in … CEOs on future innovation: firms whose CEO transitions to be an inventor experience positive abnormal stock returns …
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better innovation outcomes, measured by patents and citations, greater innovation effectiveness, and more diverse and … to identify CEOs who are likely to drive innovation success …
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We examine the relationship of financial expert CEO on firm innovation. Using CEO individual level and firm-level data … significant negative impact on firm innovation. A financial expert CEO causes 17.5% decrease in firm innovation level. We argue … make a separate examination about this impact on innovation that acquired from outsiders …
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