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Education, training and skill development policies in Sudan: Macro-micro overview

Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

This paper discusses the education, training and skill development policies in Sudan using a combination of new secondary and primary data. A novel element in our paper is that we use new primary macro and micro (firm) surveys data to discuss and compare the macro and micro perspectives...

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Choosing a career in Science and Technology

Tacsir, Ezequiel - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

Student choice is at the center of many discussions about higher education policy. At the same time, and regardless of the emphasis put on achieving an important endowment of graduates trained in science and engineering, participation in these fields is stagnated or declining. Evidence suggests...

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Gains from child-centred Early Childhood Education: Evidence from a Dutch pilot programme

Bauchmüller, Robert - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012

Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes are presumed to have positive effects in particular for children who are at risk of failing during their school careers. However, there is disagreement on whether such programmes should be more teacher and curriculum based or rather centred on the...

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Estimating the rate of return to education in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan: first, positive but low rate of return to education and...

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Occupation Choice: Family, Social and Market Influences

Tacsir, Ezequiel - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

The advance of knowledge-based societies has modified the labor markets and qualification requirements. In this sense, and considering that individual choices about careers and occupations have pervasive social effects, there is a growing interest from both academics and policy makers in...

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Learning in Local Systems and Global Links: The Otigba Computer Hardware Cluster in Nigeria

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

Conventional wisdom suggests to the fact that poor countries are unlikely to be host to a “high-technology” sector and doing so within the organization of small and medium enterprises. This paper examines an unusual phenomenon of industrial organization in an African setting; the emergence...

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Is Inter-Firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel

Maliranta, Mika; Mohnen, Pierre; Rouvinen, Petri - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others' R&D labs to one's own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring workers...

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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 … innovation strategies experienced more employment growth, higher profitability, and better sales dynamics than those that adopted … occasional innovation approach. Market growth of continuous innovating firms realized faster pace than other type of firms …

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Learning Networks Matter: Challenges to Developing Learning-Based Competence in Mango Production and Post-Harvest in Andhra Pradesh, India

Prasad Pant, Laxmi; Hambly Odame, Helen; Hall, Andy; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

This discussion paper explores aspects of innovation systems ideas in the analysis of mango production and export by … to aspects of integrated technology development and innovation management. …

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Developing science, technology and innovation indicators: what we can learn from the past

Soete, Luc; Freeman, Chris - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

The science-technology-innovation system is one that is continuously and rapidly evolving. The dramatic growth over the … last twenty years in the use of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators appears first and foremost the result … and economic objectives and in which business competition is increasingly based on innovation. As highlighted on the basis …

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