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This publication highlights priorities and strategies in meeting current and emerging needs for skills development in South Asia. The report is in line with the Asian Development Bank’s effort to support its developing member countries’ priorities toward global competitiveness, increased...
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efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
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Progress in our understanding of the role of knowledge in the economy, based on Nelson and Winter's book published in …
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innovation at the sectoral level. Despite considerable interest in David and Foray's (1995) work on the codification of knowledge …This paper explores ongoing debates about the role that codified forms of knowledge play in fostering firms' and … and the changing nature of innovation due to the use of information and communication technologies, there are relatively …
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This publication highlights priorities and strategies in meeting current and emerging needs for skills development in South Asia. The report is in line with the Asian Development Bank’s effort to support its developing member countries’ priorities toward global competitiveness, increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165194
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
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This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simulataneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...
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The motivation behind strengthening knowledge management at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to offer our Developing … through partnership plus knowledge that will maximize and accelerate development effectiveness for ending poverty across the … Asia and Pacific region. The knowledge management directions and action plan set out in this publication focus on …
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I examine the relationship between the characteristics of firm knowledge in terms of capital, diversity and relatedness …, and productivity. Panel data regression models suggest that unlike knowledge diversity, knowledge capital and knowledge … knowledge are more productive than those based on unrelated knowledge because the cost of co-ordinating productive activities …
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materials, knowledge and technologies. Preventing the diffusion of the necessary knowledge and technologies used to develop …
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