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Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

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Adoption of New Technology

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Khan, Beethika - EconWPA - 2004

The contribution of new technology to economic growth can only be realized when and if the new technology is widely diffused and used. Diffusion itself results from a series of individual decisions to begin using the new technology, decisions which are often the result of a comparison of the...

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Spatial Proximity and Complementarities in the Trading of Tacit Knowledge

Aydogan, Neslihan; Lyon, Thomas P. - EconWPA - 2004

We model knowledge-trading coalitions in which the transfer of tacit knowledge is unverifiable and requires face-to-face contact, making spatial proximity important. When there are sufficient “complementarities” in knowledge exchange, successful exchange is facilitated if firms can meet in a...

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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …

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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies

Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005

2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …

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Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - EconWPA - 2005

California law that make non-compete agreements unenforceable. Consistent with our model of innovation, mobility rates outside of …

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Patterns of Advanced Technology Adoption and Manufacturing Performance: Employment Growth, Labor Productivity, and Employee Earnings

Beede, David N.; Young, Kan H. - EconWPA - 1996

Previous studies of the relationship between technology adoption and performance in U.S. manufacturing plants take the number of technologies in use as a measure of technological sophistication. These studies generally find a positive monotonic relationship between technology counts and...

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An empirical note on growth and convergence across Russian regions

Solanko, Laura - EconWPA - 2003

regions. Using data for 1992-2001, we find strong sigma divergence simultaneously with beta convergence. he results indicate … that per capita income in Russian regions may be converging towards two separate steady states. The poorest regions seem to … be converging among themselves, while growth experiences among other regions have been highly heterogeneous. …

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Regioni e Territori nello Spazio Europeo della Ricerca

Caruso, Raul - EconWPA - 2005

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Transaction cost theory and management consulting: Why do management consultants exist?

Canback, Staffan - EconWPA - 1998

The paper sheds light on two questions, using transaction cost theory: 1) Why do management consultants exist, and 2) why do they organize in independent firms. The paper also contains a history of the management consulting industry.

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