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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation (EPL) on innovation is … technologically advanced innovation. In this paper we find empirical evidence that both effects are at work - multinational … innovation in countries with low EPL. …
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skilled graduates in small, know-how-based firms can be instrumental in spurring innovation and upgrading changes in the firms … qualifications that can contribute positively. Graduates with other academic qualifications also hold potential for innovation and …
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productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning …
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, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …
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This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...
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not just innovation, accumulation or distribution, but their structural compatibility over time. Many different growth …
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Innovation may be seen as a process of knowledge creation and the speed and direction of knowledge creation reflects … aiming at promoting innovation and knowledge creation. … knowledge creation in the context of a learning economy. An important issue is to what extent direct and indirect participation …
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This paper examines the sources of firm product and process innovation in Norway. It uses a purpose-built survey of ….’s (2007) contention that firm innovation is both the result of ‘science, technology and innovation’ (STI) and ‘doing, using … innovation and that both STI and DUI-modes of interaction matter. However, it also shows that DUI modes of interaction outside …
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performance of innovation studies units with business and management schools in the UK. Using various mappings and metrics, this … study shows that: (i) innovation studies units are consistently more interdisciplinary than business and management schools …
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