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Innovators : Songwriters
Galenson, David W. - 2009
Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were two of the great experimental songwriters of the Golden Era. They aimed to create songs that were clear and universal. Their ability to do this improved throughout much of their careers, as their skill in using language to create simple and poignant images...
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
explain international technology diffusion is genetic distance relative to the world technological frontier ("relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114316
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Can Innovators Be Created? Experimental Evidence from an Innovation Contest
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2018
Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927018
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Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013
innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754241
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012
This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103885
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012
This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112616
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231451
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The it Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to “new hubs” with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916620
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158843
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Pop Internationalism : Has a Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2010
Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143771