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The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has demonstrated commitment to expand higher education science and technology (S and T) programs to spur and support its growth and transformation agenda. Ethiopia has made a tremendous advance in access to higher education over the past decade. This rapid...
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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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The past year marked the start of drawing up new integrated technological development plans for the Russian science and technology. The plans were originally presented by an Executive Order of the Russian President and then evolved into a nationwide project called “The ‘Science' National...
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Erasmus projects funded by the European Union. The project is based on the approach of innovation pedagogy that responds to …
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In the wake of the global crisis the issue of innovation development is mentioned more of-ten than in previous years …, despite the fact that "innovation" context has greatly contrasted with the actual results of the formation of the national … innovation economy. The principal difference last year was that, first, the innovation vector of development (at least at the …
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The scientific sphere saw continuation of the measures initiated between 2009 and 2010. The Russian research complex displayed certain positive shifts, though they fell short of being of magnitude sufficient to be mirrored by statistics. There also were alarm bells: specifically, against the...
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Last year, the subject of innovation development formed one of the top public policy priorities. That manifested itself …, and encouragement of the latter's innovation activities. The focus shifted onto huge projects, with Skolkovo being atop …
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The past year was marked by the alteration of former trends and priorities following the change of the President and the Government. State policies for supporting science came to the fore while the encouragement of innovative activities and technological development lost in the frequency of its...
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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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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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