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The Influence of Science and Technology Park Characteristics on Firms’ Innovation Results
Albahari, Alberto; Barge-Gil, Andrés; Pérez-Canto, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
and 25 STPs from the 2009 Community Innovation Survey for Spain and a survey of STP managers respectively, we find that …The effectiveness of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) as instruments of innovation policy has generated thriving …
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Inclusive Growth Through Creation of Human and Social Capital
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analyses inclusive growth that focuses on the creation of opportunities for all. Inclusive growth allows people to contribute to and benefit from economic growth, while pro-poor growth approaches focusing on welfare of the poor only to reduce inequality. Recently, economics literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271694
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Le Capital Social: Entre Evidences Théoriques et Balbutiemments Empiriques
Yogo, Urbain Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper surveys research on social capital with a specific emphasis on Africa studies. We explore deeply the definition and the main dimensions of social capital, following Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam. We also question the formation of social capital and address the issue of measurement. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502735
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Using Your Ties to Get a Worse Job? The Differential Effects of Social Networks on Quality of Employment in Colombia
Deguilhem, Thibaud - 2018
This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934201
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Horizontal and Vertical Firm Networks, Corporate Performance and Product Market Competition
Bischoff, Oliver - 2015
This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024843
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Кластерные стратегии и кластерные инициативы: перспективы и факторы эффективной кластеризации
Filippova, Irina; Mindlin, Yuri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The article investigates the impact of clusters on the social environment and the impact of institutional factors on the formation and development of clusters. The authors proceed from the obvious assumption that the basic prerequisite for successful clustering is the development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260732
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Entrepreneurial culture and innovation in the services sector: case study evidence from Greece
Petrou, Anastasia; Daskalopoulou, Irene - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Innovation in the services sectors has been a rather neglected research area under the commonly held view that … manufacturing firms are the main drivers of innovation in developed economies. The rise of the service economy has redirected the … research agenda towards the potential of services firms to adopt innovation activity. Here we analyze the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506114
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Eco-development and Tribal Empowerment
Pillai, Rajasekharan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The fruits of economic development have not been percolated down to the tribes and marginalized communities. In the Indian experience, neither more than half a century’s economic planning nor official communal reservation mandates helped to better their lot. Myriads of schemes are being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536051
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Innovation and Social Capital in the Small-Medium Enterprises: a case of bamboo handicraft in Indonesia
Brata, Aloysius Gunadi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper aims to seek what type of innovation and to estimate the impact of social capital on the innovation in the … than half of respondents are innovative producers. Innovation of product and organizational are the important types of … innovation in the bamboo handicraft. Social capital, measured by an index of trust significantly influences the innovation index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980400
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Social Capital, Culture and Innovation: a different perspective
Pasimeni, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This chapter aims at analysing some characteristics of the innovation process, focusing on two factors that may … can have positive effects on the equality level of an economy, while having not always positive effect on innovation. …
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