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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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Key indicators show Germany belonging to the countries in the OECD with strong innovation activity even though some … technologies, such as ICT and biotechnology, as innovation activities continue to focus on sectors, such as machinery and … ...<BR><P>Selon les principaux indicateurs, l’Allemagne est l’un des pays de l’OCDE où l’activité d’innovation est soutenue …
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factor productivity gains, which are in turn driven to a large extent by innovation. While a number of Korean firms are at …. Innovation also requires policies to ensure the supply of high-quality human capital through reforms of tertiary education. This ….oecd.org/eco/surveys/korea).<P>Maintenir une forte croissance grâce à l'innovation : Réforme des système de R-D et d'éducation<BR>Les apports de main-d’oeuvre et …
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investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …
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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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rather than innovation. Additionally, the model implies that human capital and intellectual property rights are substitutable …
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This paper examines the phenomenon of international R%D collaboration in the form of cross-national patenting. Using a unique dataset on patents from the USPTO for a maximum of 125 countries over the period 1975-2005, we show that, despite the potential for technological advancement arising from...
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innovation. As its name suggests, creative intelligence excludes imitation. Therefore, firstly, it requires an important … but insufficient condition to assure innovation. Indeed, two other factors are necessary for that: the patent, as a form … of protection of intellectual property rights, and the human capital (and thus the education). The resulting innovation …
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This study examined the nature and extent of the agricultural biotechnology R&D and innovations in Nigeria. Data were collected from the Directors, Heads of Crop Units and Research Scientists in the agricultural research institutes using structured and unstructured questionnaires and interview...
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