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scientific and technological knowledge from manufacturing, to the marketing and the strategic management of companies that act as … protagonists of these processes. Globalization of markets is inter-connected with intensive incorporation of knowledge in economy …. This study on “R&D, Innovation and Employment Creation” for the Portuguese Observatory of Employment and Vocational …
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organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … Portugal and other European countries, over all, during the decade of 90. An analysis for sector is made still. One verifies … Portugal, concluding that Portugal presents an enterprise structure predominantly based on small and very small companies, a …
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less industrialized member states of the European Union, specifically the case of Portugal, based on the report for the … considerations related to the socioeconomic factors affecting the prospects and conditions for APS in Portugal. APS is defined as a … stress the trends for the implementation and development of anthropocentric production systems in Portugal. …
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One can assist to significant changes in the organisation of manufacturing systems during the last years. Lean production, network enterprise or the virtual enterprises are reference concepts of the re-organisation of manufacturing systems. Some authors mention a new enterprise paradigm, of...
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This paper estimates the economic returns to education in China from 1989 to 2009, using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) dataset. We find that education returns for one additional year generally increase from 2.6% in 1989 to 7.9% in 2009. Education returns, however, may reflect...
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This paper challenges the economic constraints associated with the so-called post-industrial trilemma. Following Iversen’s and Wren’s seminal 1998 paper, it has been widely accepted that differential industry-level productivity increases rule out a solidaristic structure of wages, due to the...
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This paper employs industry data, derived from linking the EU LFS to productivity accounts from EU KLEMS, to examine workforce training and productivity in European Union original members states. Training activities are modelled as intangible investments by firms and cumulated to stocks so their...
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Currently distributed business process (re) design (resulting in components of business networks) basically relies on technical criteria. And that are the main purposes of most research projects supported by EC. Through the process of building a European Research Area, this means a strong...
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European countries (Germany, Belgium and Portugal): shopfloor and production lines, design and management and the local inter …
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autonomous, discrete and specialised work. The knowledge needed for the work in organisations can be searched in the working … processes modelling. And that can be a constructive basis of a “knowledge map”. Thus, are described the activities of different …
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