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Internet Diffusion, Innovation and Employment Growth in the Costa Rican Manufacturing Sector
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
by workers for business purposes does not impact demand for labor. The positive impact of product innovation on labor … female labor demand. These findings underscore the Internet's importance in improving the impact of product innovation on … employment growth and suggest that employee use of the Internet is neither a labor displacement innovation nor a gender or skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741901
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Internet Diffusion, Innovation and Employment Growth in the Costa Rican Manufacturing Sector
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
by workers for business purposes does not impact demand for labor. The positive impact of product innovation on labor … female labor demand. These findings underscore the Internet's importance in improving the impact of product innovation on … employment growth and suggest that employee use of the Internet is neither a labor displacement innovation nor a gender or skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654661
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Innovative Networks and Capability Building in the Australian High-Technology SMEs
Mohannak, Kavoos - 2007
resource and information limitations by becoming a part of a knowledge network. This paper seeks to examine innovation networks … businesses to learn, adapt to technological change, and innovate. Design/methodology/approach ? To study the innovation networks … analysis of the extent of innovation linkages within the biotech clusters in Sydney and ICT cluster within Melbourne. Research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483353
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Facilitating unlearning during implementation of new technology
Becker, Karen L. - 2010
Purpose ? One of the critical issues for change management, particularly in relation to the implementation of new technologies, is the existence of prior knowledge and established mental models which may hinder change efforts. Understanding unlearning and how it might assist during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483390
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Information and Communication Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening
Otto, Kate; Shekar, Meera; Herbst, Christopher H.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011203188
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The regional anatomy of school dropouts in Spain : the role of the industry structure of local labour markets
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Nilsson, Jan Olof William - 2020
A number of studies have examined the impact of local labor market conditions on school dropout. However, none of them have considered the role of the industry structure. We construct data for a panel of Spanish regions and identify the effect of local labor markets using a variation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212587
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Competencies and skills for future Industrial Engineers defined in Spanish degrees
Santandreu-Mascarell, Cristina; Canós-Darós, Lourdes; … - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 4 (2011) 1, pp. 13-30
Purpose: This paper has a double purpose. First, to analyze the competencies and skills proposed as ideals for an … the fit between competencies and skills described in Spanish Industrial Engineering degrees and a real business …, we have analyzed and identified the competencies and skills proposed as ideals for an Industrial Engineering degree in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899739
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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528595
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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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The effects of policies for training and skills on improving innovation capabilities in firms
Jones, Barbara; Grimshaw, Damian - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489342