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Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

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Beyond Penrose : A Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …

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Education and Health Knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

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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Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics

Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

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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Where Would You Turn For Help? Older Adults’ Knowledge and Awareness of Community Support Services

Denton, Margaret; Ploeg, Jenny; Tindale, Joseph; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

Community support services (CSSs) enable persons coping with health or social problems to maintain the highest possible level of social functioning and quality of life. Access to these services is challenging because of the multiplicity of small agencies providing these services and the lack of...

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Where Would You Turn For Help? Older Adults’ Knowledge and Awareness of Community Support Services

Denton, Margaret; Ploeg, Jenny; Tindale, Joseph; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

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Where Would You Turn for Help? Older Adults’ Awareness of Community Support Services

Denton, Margaret; Ploeg, Jenny; Tindale, Joseph; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010

Previous findings on older adults’ awareness of community support services (CSSs) have been inconsistent and marred by acquiescence or over-claiming bias. To address this issue, this study used a series of 12 vignettes to describe common situations faced by older adults for which CSSs might be...

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Derivation of Monotone Decision Models from Non-Monotone Data

Daniëls, H.A.M.; Velikova, M.V. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

The objective of data mining is the extraction of knowledge from databases. In practice, one often encounters … difficulties with models that are constructed purely by search, without incorporation of knowledge about the domain of application …

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Integrating Economic Knowledge in Data Mining Algorithms

Daniëls, H.A.M.; Feelders, A.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

The assessment of knowledge derived from databases depends on many factors. Decision makers often need to convince … others about the correctness and effectiveness of knowledge induced from data.The current data mining techniques do not … contribute much to this process of persuasion.Part of this limitation can be removed by integrating knowledge from experts in the …

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Decentralization, Interdependence and Performance Measurement System Design : Sequences and Priorities

Bouwens, Jan; Abernethy, M.; van Lent, L.A.G.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

of those choices, namely, subunit interdependencies and knowledge transfer costs.We test our predictions with a …

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