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In this paper, a theory of total factor productivity (TFP) that incorporates a model of intelligence is formulated and … described. In particular, the fluid intelligence of ordinary workers is emphasized as an important element in TFP because such … workers have the intelligence to innovate, even though their innovations are minor. Nevertheless, these innovations are …
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politicians. The importance of cognitive capital was reflected in the rate of innovation, the degree of economic freedom, and …
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the importance to the firm of creating (and capturing) value from innovation. We note that the appropriability of returns … with innovation and incomplete markets is to capture value (profit) from its advantages and actions; and that the way in …
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strategic innovation, and to encourage consensus over the field’s core foundation of main themes. Methods: We explore the … intersection between the constituent fields of strategic management and innovation management through a concept mapping process. We … categorize the main themes and search for common ground in order to develop the core thematic framework of strategic innovation …
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The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …
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. This study on “R&D, Innovation and Employment Creation” for the Portuguese Observatory of Employment and Vocational … Training (IEFP-MQE) is updating information on the articulation between Job creation, innovation, technology, and R&D. A … diagnosis of the state of national S&T research and of processes of technological and organizational innovation was made, as …
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This paper was the first initiative to try to define Web2.0 and understand its implications for the next generation of software, looking at both design patterns and business modes. Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the...
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We aim to give the main rationale to create products and/or services in a state-of-mind associating every stakeholder in the frame of a reactive and networked organization. This implies a value-chain from basic research to users needs, the starting point being often fuzzy. The consequences upon...
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This article introduces and discusses from a philosophical point of view the nascent field of neuroeconomics, which is the study of neural mechanisms involved in decision-making and their economic significance. Following a survey of the ways in which decision-making is usually construed in...
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Business Intelligence (BI) represents the ability to look into the core of a business, in order to fundament the most …
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