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Productivity growth has slowed across most OECD economies since the mid-2000s. While important aspects of New Zealand’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long-run trend of poor productivity in New Zealand,...
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Un environnement économique favorable est crucial pour stimuler la productivité en Belgique et l’inclusivité, et est le principal moteur de la prospérité économique à long terme. Ce document analyse l’impact de l’environnement économique sur la performance de productivité. La...
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The objective of the paper is to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of … emphasis will be put on developing countries in which innovation, skills and technological absorptive capacities tend to be … some concepts and definitions on technology, innovation, and the channels of technology diffusion. In a second part, we use …
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, Innovation and Growth assembles a stellar cast of international contributors. Leading economists join the debate on innovation … innovation -- 7. Cooperation, creativity and closure in scientific research networks : modelling the dynamics of epistemic … communities -- 8. The diversity of social systems of innovation and production during the 1990s -- 9. An overview of sustainable …
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This paper examines the relationship between environmental policy and “green” innovation in shipbuilding. The primary … motivating question of this work is whether there is evidence of: i) technology push from innovation that enables environmental … policy initiatives; and/or, ii) policy pull that induces innovation leading to “green” ships. This paper focuses on four …
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adequate skills and awareness of digital benefits or dangers (online security, cyberbullying, addiction). Promoting innovation …
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Austria’s transition to a digital economy and society is slower than in other high-income small open European economies. The rate and pace of utilisation of eight main ICT applications shows that Austrian firms follow peer country counterparts with a gap, which has widened in most areas in...
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Insufficient diffusion of new technologies has been quoted as one possible reason for weak productivity performance over the past two decades (Andrews et al., 2016). This paper uses a novel data set of digital technology usage covering 25 industries in 25 European countries over the 2010-16...
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