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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013
that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual’s decision to start a business is determined by his...
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …
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Microelectronics-based innovations and employment in Mexican industries.
L, Dominguez-Villalobos - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1988
Shows that diffusion of microelectronic machinery has not progressed far and that labour displacement effects do not appear very important at this stage.
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Spurious flexibility: technical modernisation and social inequalities in the Brazilian footwear industry.
V, Prochnik - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1992
Covers the period from 1975 to 1990 and gives projections to the year 2000. Focuses on two segments of the footwear industry: the production of women's leather footwear and sports footwear. The study is supplemented by an interview survey conducted in eight of the largest export firms.
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Vocational education and training in the chemical industry in Germany and the United Kingdom
Rogalski, Steffen A - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2006
Looks at practices that boost worker employability and capacity to deal with technological advances. Refers to the Lisbon Agenda with a view of priority action areas, the standardization of qualifications in the European Union, the European Credit Transfer System for higher education, and issues...
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Innovation in planning Hungarian labour market programs.
O'Leary CJ - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1994
Presents an overview of the Hungarian system of performance indicators designed to facilitate the assessment, management and planning of employment promotion programmes.
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Technology adaptation in bangkok's informal sector.
Amin, A. T. M. Nurul - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1989
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Restructuration industrielle et commerce Nord-Sud: le cas des pays- bas.
B, Evers; G, De Groot - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1980
, traces the evolution of policies relating to adjustment assistance, industrial investment and Innovation, and analyses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966237