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management, health care financing, governance and service delivery, and infrastructure. This report describes the changing …
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-creating takeovers and increase innovation and do not induce agency con icts of managerial entrenchment. This implies that for innovative …
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Rwanda, led by its Ministry of Health, was the first African country to implement Performance- Based Financing (PBF) nationwide in its health centers and hospitals. The country then went on to pilot RBF interventions at the community level. Rewarding community members who provide and use...
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Arrangements to cooperate on innovation facilitate access to external sources of knowledge. Using panel data derived … from five waves of Community Innovation Survey in the Czech Republic, we examine whether firms engage in these arrangements … initiating cooperation on innovation therefore have the potential to induce durable changes in the innovative behaviour of firms. …
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-based, comprehensive, etc) innovation policies, have abandoned the linear view by learning from innovation research. The division between …The concept of a holistic innovation policy is defined in this article, with discussions of what it is, why it is … relevant, and how it can be implemented to enhance product innovation. It is shown that the innovation systems approach has …
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Verification in results-based financing (RBF) mechanisms is one of the key differentiators between it and related health financing structures such as social health insurance. Verifying that providers have achieved reported performance in RBF mechanisms is considered a crucial part of program...
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plagued by low pay-off in relation to very high investments in R&D and innovation efforts. Using new data, we show that this … related to the Swedish paradox. We take account of the history of innovation policy in Sweden and – on the basis of the …
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The author examines the properties of a dynamic disequilibrium model focused on trade specialization and the accumulation of knowledge. Steady state analysis shows that: a) under perfectly balanced growth international diffusion of knowledge is irrelevant for growth; and b) under unbalanced...
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It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliché to say so. This article … studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight manufacturing … sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric evidence …
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While innovation is a source of competitiveness, it may expose plants to survival risks. Using a rich set of plant … important role for the innovation-survival link: only innovators that retain diversified sources of revenues survive longer … role in the innovation-survival link. Engaging in risky innovation is not an irrational decision, since plants reap big …
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