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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370094
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Why has science become an old man's game?
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023
We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326208
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Why develop open source software? : The role of non-pecuniary benefits, monetary rewards and open source licence type
Sauer, Robert M. (contributor) - 2007
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover … decisions that can provide empirical estimates of relative importance within a single unified framework. -- Software ; open …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646702
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Migration, knowledge diffusion and the comparative advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454004
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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125
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A firm scientific community: industry participation and knowledge diffusion
Baruffaldi, Stefano Horst; Poege, Felix - 2020
We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique dataset on conference proceedings as "paper trail" of almost all relevant conference series in computer science since 1996. More than 5000 firms appear as conference sponsors or as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242837
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Migration and post-conflict reconstruction : the effect of returning refugees on export performance in the former Yugoslavia
Bahar, Dany; Özgüzel, Cem; Hauptmann, Andreas; … - 2019
During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of migrants in post-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022752
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The productivity impact of business visits across industries
Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020
This paper builds on and considerably extends Piva, Tani and Vivarelli (2018), confirming the key role of Business Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business visits sourced from the U.S. National Business Travel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182755
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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309152
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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348286