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high growth are phenomena of the modern period. In order to explain these phenomena we propose an innovation-driven growth …
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In the wake of the global crisis the issue of innovation development is mentioned more of-ten than in previous years …, despite the fact that "innovation" context has greatly contrasted with the actual results of the formation of the national … innovation economy. The principal difference last year was that, first, the innovation vector of development (at least at the …
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have a larger fraction of skilled workers, higher R&D to sales ratios and established networks to knowledge sources in … several different countries. As illustrated by the so-called ‘anchor-tenant’ hypothesis, they can be described as “knowledge …
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have a larger fraction of skilled workers, higher R&D to sales ratios and established networks to knowledge sources in … several different countries. As illustrated by the so-called ‘anchor-tenant’ hypothesis, they can be described as “knowledge …
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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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-level innovativeness. This observation has been explained by older employees working with outdated technological knowledge and being … particular turnover of R&D workers is deemed a vehicle for transfer of external knowledge to the firm, which can compensate for … lower cognitive flexibility and up-to-date knowledge among older workers. We use a matched employer-employee dataset based …
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Measured by per-capita publication measures, Sweden is an academic powerhouse. Hence, its inability to commercialize on these accomplishments is a puzzle. This paper attributes this failure to the top-down nature of Swedish policies aimed at commercializing these innovations as well as an...
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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818713
of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …
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