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To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer‐employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …
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To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
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creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …
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In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...
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Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades …, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth … technological innovation to raise labor productivity. This paper identifies three reasons why technological innovation has become …
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that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …
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€“ innovation and trade – are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent … of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate …. The COVID-19 pandemic may cause a permanent reduction in innovation and entrepreneurship and may even bring the 4th …
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whether extreme events can positively impact (some) entrepreneurship and innovation. Based on this, we propose a partial …
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we contribute to the debate on HCAI by arguing that public procurement and innovation (PPaI) can be used to incentivize … with calls for mission-oriented and challenge-led innovation policies. Our paper also contributes to the emerging …
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