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The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
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The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate...
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levels and rather for management jobs than for jobs in research and development. This is true for the whole chemical sector …
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analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their … training to academic or non-academic jobs. Only about half of the postdocs sees strong incentives for academic research, but … better career prospects and higher research incentives compared to others. Academic career prospects and motivation are …
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We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine …
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When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach … the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which …
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's future research output. After adjustment for a range of personal and institutional characteristics, departmental research …
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mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational …
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Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and …
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– in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools …
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