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In recent years the Russian innovation policy has made a significant progress that manifests in developing its ‘tool … kit', increasing resource base, etc. However it has not yet succeeded in improving business innovation activities that … Russian industrial enterprises the authors analyze key features of innovation in Russian companies under economic recovery, as …
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for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms' innovation, measured, as the … the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance. In this work, we analyse the …
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. This paper discusses with the framework of the “latecomers”. In these countries, the factor of innovation has been produced … innovation and growth in less favourable surroundings than those of developed Europe. …
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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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The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...
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In this paper I investigate whether students self-select into the US for-profit colleges or whether the choice of for-profit sector is accidental or due to the reasons external to the students (geographic exposure to for-profit providers, tuition pricing, or random circumstances). The main...
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In this paper, I obtain the estimates of the effects of for-profit training and credentials on students' annualized earnings. I differentiate for-profit students by the program level and account for students' self-selection into for-profit sector. I formulate the evaluation as the series...
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In this study, I use three data sets collected by the US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): National Postsecondary Student Aid Studies of 1996, 2000 and 2004 (NPSAS:96,NPSAS:2000, and NPSAS:04) to derive the characteristics of the students in the US...
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This paper analyses the employment effects of mergers and acquisitions by using matched establishment-level data from Finland over the period of 1989-2003. The data covers all sectors. We compare the employment effects of cross-border M&As with the effects arising from two different types of...
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The world is experiencing significant, largely economic and sociotechnical, induced change. These induced changes are meaningful with a function of people taking collective actions around common beliefs. These changes are more than jargon, cliché and hyperbole, and they are effecting major...
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