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This study examines whether the transfer of knowledge flows from universities to enterprises in Canada is hampered by … the geographical distance that separates them. The transfer of knowledge flows are measured by the amount of R&D payments …&D paid to a university by 1.4 percent for enterprises that do not report any codified transfer of knowledge flow, and by half …
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innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies …
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To cope and compete in this rapidly-changing world, organisations need to access and apply new knowledge. While … explicit knowledge is important, what is often critical is an organisation's ability to create, access, share and apply the … tacit or un-codified knowledge that exists among its members, its network and the wider innovation system of which it is a …
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(impact) of tacit and codified sources of knowledge at the micro and macro levels in Sudan using new primary data from the … are consistent with the notion that tacit knowledge and codified sources of knowledge are positively and significantly … level codified knowledge and the number of FTER show significant positive correlations with technology (patents …
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separately from innovation indicators, and the importance of language based on codified and tacit knowledge is emphasized. The … knowledge is codified in manuals, and the tacit knowledge is held in overlapping communities of practice that develop the …
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examines the knowledge-based determinants of productivity of firms active in food processing, textiles, and garments and … leather products. In particular, it seeks to investigate the importance of various sources of knowledge in explaining … productivity in the different industries. The knowledge sources driving productivity performance are very different across sectors …
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Technological innovation depends on knowledge developed by scientific research. The num-ber of citations made in … patents to the scientific literature has been suggested as an indicator of this process of transfer of knowledge from science …-to-sector ma-trix of knowledge flows. We then propose a method to analyze this matrix and construct vari-ous indicators of science …
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diffuse new knowledge is key in enabling countries to capitalise on challenges brought about by rapid technology …-driven transformations rather than succumb to their adverse effects. In particular, we look at the importance of new knowledge emanating from …
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We model knowledge diffusion in a population of agents situated on a network, interacting only over direct ties. Some … (proportion of traders), the network structure (clustering, path length and degree distribution), and the scarcity of knowledge … connected agents do well when knowledge is scarce, agents in clustered neighbourhoods do well when it is abundant. The latter …
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labour market. The challenge today appears more or less similar, but this time with respect to knowledge. Interestingly, it … social welfare models that have performed best in terms of knowledge investments. This suggests, that success in boosting … knowledge investment generates the public resources for the development of social welfare models capable of addressing rapid …
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