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This paper analyzes the trends and challenges of competitiveness and innovation in the tourism and telecommunications …
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This paper studies the degree to which innovation by Costa Rican manufacturing firms creates or displaces employment …, how different innovation strategies affect employment, and how these effects vary by firm size and type of employment … process innovations on employment growth. Particular attention is paid to identifying innovation impacts on employment …
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This paper compiles and analyzes several sources of information to shed light on the relationship between innovation … process innovation is generally not found to be a relevant determinant of employment growth, and that product innovation is …
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between individuals, and between them and public institutions, can encourage technological innovation and the adoption of … that social capital correlates positively with innovation. Further, the analysis reveals a powerful interaction between … institutions a caractere publique, peuvent encourager l'innovation technologique et l'adoption de la connaissance. Qui plus est, l …
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' innovation performance and productivity. Because most available studies focus on manufacturing firms, very little is known about … data from the latest available Mexican innovation survey, we explore the determinants of-including the barriers to …-technological innovation and the impact of innovation on service firms' productivity in Mexico. Results from a three-stage econometric model …
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SME Metasys: A Business Management System for SMEs
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The purpose of this study is to document and give deeper substance to the link between math and science achievement and the economic performance of firms in the information and communications technology (ICT) cluster in four countries: Brazil (Recife), Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Sweden. Sweden...
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This report focuses on the determinants of the first type of research output: new knowledge. There are no direct measures of this type of research output, but several proxies have been typically used. The two most important ones that we will apply during the study are (a) publications and (b)...
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This paper examines the current and emerging trends in mobile health, with particular emphasis on lessons learned and on potential opportunities for Latin America to apply mobile services to health care efforts to benefit the majority of people.
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This paper provides a review of the status of Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) in Latin American and the Caribbean. It includes a history of EMIS development efforts in the region; an outline of practical lessons learned from earlier EMIS development efforts; the identification of...
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