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Tapping into Talent : Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk; Pearce, Jeremy; Prato, Marta - 2020
How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study … when combined with higher education policy that alleviates financial frictions for talented youth. Education and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093497
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Proprietary versus public domain licensing of software and research products
Gambardella, Alfonso; Hall, Bronwyn H. - In: The capitalization of knowledge : a triple helix of …, (pp. 167-198). 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688455
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Catching Up and Falling Behind : The Performance of Provincial GDP Per Capita from 1990 to 2003
Baldwin, John R.; Brown, W. Mark; Maynard, Jean-Pierre; … - 2009
This paper compares GDP per capita across Canadian provinces over the period from 1990 to 2003. It starts by examining relative GDP per capita measured in current dollars across provinces and over time. The second section breaks down growth in nominal dollar GDP into a price and a volume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208771
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Productivity Performance in Canada, 1961 to 2008 : An Update on Long-Term Trends
Baldwin, John R. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158368
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Innovation, R&D efficiency and the impact of the regulatory environment : a two stage semi-parametric DEA approach
Cullmann, Astrid; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - 2009
This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832741
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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective
Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008
outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper … findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297987
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Effet de l'utilisation des technologies de pointe sur le rendement des entreprises du secteur canadien de la transformation des aliments
Sabourin, David; Baldwin, John R.; Smith, David - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003
Dans ce document, on etudie l'evolution de la structure industrielle du secteur canadien de la transformation des aliments et le lien entre cette evolution et le changement technologique. On utilise egalement les donnees d'une enquete speciale menee en 1998 sur l'utilisation de la technologie de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523557
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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011
other studies not only exists but even outweighs the disruption and loss of knowledge occurring to the previous employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278617
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Capacites d'innovation : le capital de savoir, gage de survie et de croissance des entreprises
Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
Le present document decrit les constatations tirees d'un programme de recherche visant a souligner l'importance des competences qui decoulent des investissements dans l'actif incorporel pour le processus de croissance des entreprises. Le programme comportait deux parties. Premierement, des bases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129482
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Differences in Strategies and Performances of Different Types of Innovators
Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998
-innovators-based on their responses to 22 innovation-related questions on the survey. These groups correspond to different stages in the … capital. In later stages of the innovation life cycle-comprehensive and process innovators place great emphasis on higher debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129554