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Baldwin and Gu (2008) provide an overview of the productivity program at Statistics Canada and a brief description of Canada's productivity performance. This paper provides an update of Canada's productivity performance in more recent years and analyses the sources of weak productivity...
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International student exchange has become an important part of university-level studiesand the EU plans to increase it significantly. Weanalyze how international student exchange affects students’ academic human capital. Usingdetailed student-level data fromfour faculties (Economics and...
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This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic … significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has … public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge …
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Little effort has been made to identify industries' knowledge networks, and to what extent knowledge relations occur … knowledge bases. Our study shows that the structure of the knowledge networks differs between the two industries, and few … knowledge linkages have been established between the two. Our findings also suggest that the gap between the two industries …
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disentangle differential effects of team heterogeneity by modeling two separate heterogeneity dimensions, namely knowledge scope … and knowledge disparity. Analyzing unique data on functional experiences of the members of 337 start-up teams, we find … support for our contention of team heterogeneity as a two-dimensional concept. Results suggest that knowledge disparity …
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This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach …
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assessing how the structure of actor-based knowledge networks is affected by such policies. We continue in that direction and … analyze how technology-based regional knowledge spaces structurally respond to the introduction of a cluster policy. Taking … the example of the German BioRegio contest, we examine how such knowledge spaces in winning and non-winning regions …
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innovation as having a ?high? or ?very high? environmental effect. Our findings also show that exporters are 17.5 percent more … likely, all things equal, to report that their firm's innovation cuts the cost of energy/ materials. Our results agree with …
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We experimentally investigate competition in innovation in a patent race scenario. Pairs of subjects compete as seller … firms on a duopoly market, engaging in risky search investments. Successful innovation is rewarded through temporary …
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