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This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …
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liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
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Iceland is an innovative country, but has untapped innovation potential. Strengthening innovation, especially in the … essential for stronger innovation outcomes. Competition-friendly framework conditions are key to sharpening firms’ incentives to … important benefits for innovation and society. …
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This paper surveys the empirical literature on the links between innovation, market structure and firm size. The review … sunk costs per individual project, economies of scale and scope in the production of innovation rents. Recent empirical …
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Economists studying innovation and technological change have made significant progress toward understanding firms …' profit incentives as drivers of innovation. However, innovative performance in firms should also depend heavily on the …
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industry structure are determined endogenously. Weak appropriability conditions in the downstream industry enhance innovation …
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One of the major decisions that firms face regarding R&D-intensive businesses is a structural one: establishing the appropriate level of internal strategic interdependency within and among business units. The current discussion over the effectiveness of creating small, independent, and...
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This article is a review of work published in Management Science on the topics of technological innovation, product … addressed in Management Science in the area of innovation. Second, we hope that the article will be useful to sociologists of …
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Whereas a number of studies have considered the implications of employee mobility, comparatively little research has considered institutional factors governing the ability of employees to move from one firm to another. This paper explores a legal constraint on mobility--employee non-compete...
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