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Pay for performance where output is hard to measure: the case of performance pay for school teachers

Marsden, David; Belfield, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...

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Performance pay for teachers: linking individual and organisational level targets

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of …

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Innovation and productivity in SMEs. Empirical evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Banca d'Italia - 2009

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … Italian SMEs from the ï¿½Survey on Manufacturing Firmsï¿½ conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period 1995 … firmï¿½s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive. …

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Cultural diversity, cities and innovation: firm effects or city effects?

Lee, Neil - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

diverse cities helping firms innovate. This paper uses a dataset of over 2,000 UK SMEs to test between these two. Controlling …

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Beyond interoperability to digital ecosystems: regional innovation and socio-economic development led by SMEs

Dini, Paolo; Lombardo, Gabriella; Mansell, Robin; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

-business practices, for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), using an open architecture for content sharing and Business …

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Financing innovation in Italy: an analysis of venture capital and private equity investments

Vacca, Valerio - Banca d'Italia - 2013

Using a unique data set, this paper describes the main features of the venture capital industry in Italy. Operations by Italian specialised venture capitalists are only in part devoted to small, young firms from advanced industries, have a rather short duration and are weakly focused on a few...

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