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Highly skilled temporary return, technological change and Innovation: The Case of the TRQN Project in Afghanistan
Kuschminder, Katie; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012
Using the specific case of the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals (TRQN) project, this paper illustrates the effect the short-term return of highly qualified migrants abroad can have on capacity building in the origin country through...
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A Knowledge Economy Paradigm and its Consequences
Soete, Luc - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
During the 1980s and 1990s "Active labour" market reforms opened up labour markets in Europe, making them more flexible without putting in jeopardy the essence of the social security protection model. Countries that went furthest in such "active labour" market reforms such as the UK, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150860
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Foreign Ownership, Technological Capabilities and Exports: Evidence from 205 Clothing Firms in Sri Lanka
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise of clothing production for export, apparently mainly driven by foreign firms, is regarded as a major outcome of the reforms. This paper seeks to examine a range of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150754
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategies in ICT SMEs in Enlarged Europe (EU25)
Lal, Kaushalesh; Dunnewijk, Theo - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
Innovation strategies of entrepreneurs are mapped with growth and performance of their firms in this study. Findings of the study are based on the data collected from 1238 small ICT firms located in 25 member states of European Union. The survey was conducted during October 2006 and March 2007....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150815
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Innovaatiotoiminta - Suomi globaalitaloudessa. Loppuraportti
Hyvärinen, Jari - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
have declined because of difficulties in telecommunication sector. Productivity analysis shows that high country-level R …&D expenditures as in Finland and the United States - have positive correlation with labour productivity in manufacturing. Moreover …, labour productivity in manufacturing in OECD countries relates positively with FDI and R&D expenditure growth. Also the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399069
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Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled
Hercog, Metka; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
Migration of skilled workers from developing countries has increased substantially in recent years. Traditionally, such patterns raised fears on the ground of the associated 'brain drain' as human capital formation is considered to be of central importance to the development and reduction of...
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Informational Mobility and Productivity - Finnish Evidence
Maliranta, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818441
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Shaping earnings instability: labour market policy and institutional factors
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
The concerns regarding the economic insecurity stemming from earnings instability have been gaining momentum in the contemporary political discourse. If earnings instability is as a proxy for risk, for risk-averse individuals, increasing earnings instability bears substantial welfare costs....
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Flexibility and innovation in response to emerging infectious diseases: Reactions to multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis in India
Engel, Nora - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
flexibility and innovation in public health systems is needed in order to react to changing challenges. This paper will take these … innovation and flexibility of a public health system in a country like India. The discussions and reactions to MDR-TB indicate … that arguments for flexibility meet constraints of the existing control system and the Indian public health and wider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150823
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Generating commercial ideas in Finnish universities. The role of interdisciplinarity and networking
Nikulainen, Tuomo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
Existing research argues that the keys to generating industry-relevant knowledge are interdisciplinary and networked research. The aim of this paper is to address statistically whether interdisciplinary and networked research are related to a higher potential to generate ideas with significant...
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