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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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This paper deals with institutional conditions in regional innovation systems; how institutions affect the organization … of innovation activities among firms, and in what ways regional policy initiatives can be supportive. The analysis draws … on data on innovation networks and activities in the life science, media, and food industries. The theoretical framework …
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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between technological competencies (TC) and firm performance. Theoretically, the importance of TC is well established and widely accepted. Therefore, it is surprising that a number of empirical studies have been unable to confirm a substantial positive...
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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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learning and collaborative innovation. Different forms of proximity include geographical, cognitive, social, institutional and … framework by theorizing how the relative importance of each proximity dimension depends on the type of knowledge being produced …, where we distinguish between analytical, synthetic and symbolic knowledge. We argue that our theoretical framework in …
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knowledge base approach in empirical innovation studies, regardless of industrial, geographical or temporal context. The paper … thereby dismisses the wide-spread taxonomical application of knowledge base conceptualizations in innovation studies and …This paper has three aims. Firstly, to provide a critical review of previous conceptualizations of the knowledge base …
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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
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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