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scientific and technological knowledge from manufacturing, to the marketing and the strategic management of companies that act as … protagonists of these processes. Globalization of markets is inter-connected with intensive incorporation of knowledge in economy …. This study on “R&D, Innovation and Employment Creation” for the Portuguese Observatory of Employment and Vocational …
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organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … Portugal and other European countries, over all, during the decade of 90. An analysis for sector is made still. One verifies … Portugal, concluding that Portugal presents an enterprise structure predominantly based on small and very small companies, a …
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less industrialized member states of the European Union, specifically the case of Portugal, based on the report for the … considerations related to the socioeconomic factors affecting the prospects and conditions for APS in Portugal. APS is defined as a … stress the trends for the implementation and development of anthropocentric production systems in Portugal. …
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One can assist to significant changes in the organisation of manufacturing systems during the last years. Lean production, network enterprise or the virtual enterprises are reference concepts of the re-organisation of manufacturing systems. Some authors mention a new enterprise paradigm, of...
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conspicuously in the 21st century. However, there is insufficient knowledge on how political factors and types of human capital …
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making, where is given due attention to the intuitive capabilities and the human knowledge in the optimization and …
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Sumo wrestling is a traditional fighting sport in Japan and has been popular since the 18th century (the Edo period). Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with their win rate and...
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Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with wrestlers’ winning rate and absence rate. Further, the effect of BMI is compared between an early period (before the emergence of foreign...
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The Japanese Professional Football League (J-league) was established in 1993. Based on individual level data, this study investigated how emergence of the league affected Japanese people playing football using the differences-in-differences method. The following main findings were obtained. (1)...
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We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be attributed to the assortative mating effect as...
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