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This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …
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creation perspective / Mitsuru Kodama -- 3. Knowledge convergence and design-driven innovation through boundaries knowledge … - new knowledge from the knowledge convergence and design-driven innovation perspectives / Mitsuru Kodama and Masashi Kimura … -- 4. Product and service innovation through boundaries vision and boundaries knowledge - new knowledge from the corporate …
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relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain … service productivity and innovation, and call for a conceptual re-working of the ways in which these are measured. They also … highlight the important role of knowledge in the production system and in doing so make an important contribution to a key …
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local and national systems of innovation. It analyses both the success of the triple helix as a descriptive and empirical … regional or national systems that wish to expand their innovation processes and industrial development. In addition, it …pt. I. How to capitalize knowledge -- pt. II. Triple helix in the knowledge economy …
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1. The objective : to stimulate a knowledge-based debate about innovation policy -- 2. Innovation -- 3. The innovation … learning economy -- 8. The learning organization -- 9. Knowledge intensity and knowledge flows in the Danish innovation system …Written by the scholar who, together with Chris Freeman, first introduced the concept of the innovation system, this …
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The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … innovators can draw. Both of these are endogenous: Investments in innovations are affected by the pool of knowledge and the … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are …
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This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the canonical model of education and the wage structure pioneered by Tinbergen (1975) and developed more fully by Goldin and Katz (2007). I also review...
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We revisit the identification argument of Kirkeboen et al. (2016) who showed how one may combine instruments for multiple unordered treatments with information about individuals' ranking of these treatments to achieve identification while allowing for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity...
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We document a robust negative relationship between mean annual hours in an occupation and the dispersion of annual hours within that occupation. We study a unified model of occupational choice and labor supply that features heterogeneity across occupations in the return to working additional...
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