productivity, work-force age and educational structure in Austrian industries in 2001 / Alexia Prskawetz, Bernhard Mahlberg, Vegard …

enable eastern Germany to catch-up with western Germany's productivity and living standards. This book evaluates the main …Following German reunification in 1990, East Germany's centrally planned economy was abolished and replaced by West … Germany's social market economy. Western Germany has since provided vast financial support to aid the transformation, and …

organizations with a focus on learning and innovation …1. Purpose, scope, concepts and positioning -- 2. Embodied cognition -- 3. Organizational focus -- 4. Organization …

Kafouros theoretically and empirically examines the impacts of innovation and scientific knowledge on the productivity … innovation and firm productivity performance, the book also investigates a number of additional issues including the costs of R …'s productivity, and how multinationals build on external inventions, ideas and knowledge. The results confirm that not all firms can …

important contributions. Firstly, it elaborates the hypothesis that total factor productivity growth stems from pecuniary …pt. 1. The localized generation and exploitation of technological knowledge and innovation -- pt. 2. The Italian …

diffusion of technology, and provides fresh evidence on the effects that these differences have on productivity and innovation …pt. 1. The changing role of multinational firms in innovation -- pt. 2. How firms differ in innovation, productivity …