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Maintenance Costs, Obsolescence, and Endogenous Growth
Berden, Koen G.; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2001
We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses the model of quality improvements todescribe...
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Signals in Science - On the Importance of Signaling in Gaining Attention in Science
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Henkens, Kène - 2004
Which signals are important in gaining attention in science? For a group of 1,371 scientific articles published in 17 demography journals in the years 1990-1992 we track their influence and discern which signals are important in receiving citations. Three types of signals are examined: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325180
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Altruism to Strangers for our Own Sake: Domestic Effects from Immigration
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012
This paper seeks to identify relationships between human capital and cultural capital, in the context of local labour market productivity. The key constituents of human capital, identified in the literature, are jointly examined in a close-to-reality-model. The main advantage of our model of...
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377228
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The Schumpeterian Entrepreneur: A Review of the Empirical Evidence on the Antecedents, Behavior, and Consequences of Innovative Entrepreneurship
Block, Joern H.; Fisch, Christian O.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2016
Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively discussion in academia and practice alike. Oftentimes, however, the debate is not sufficiently grounded on solid empirical evidence. The academic literature is growing but very...
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You've Got Email: A Workflow Management Extraction System
Chaipornkaew, Piyanuch; Prexawanprasut, Takorn; … - 2017
Email is one of the most powerful tools for communication. Many businesses use email as the main channel for communication, so it is possible that substantial data are included in email content. In order to help businesses grow faster, a workflow management system may be required. The data...
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A Generalized Email Classification System for Workflow Analysis
Chaipornkaew, Piyanuch; Prexawanprasut, Takorn; Chang, … - 2017
One of the most powerful internet communication channels is email. As employees and their clients communicate primarily via email, much crucial business data is conveyed via email content. Where businesses are understandably concerned, they need a sophisticated workflow management system to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819459
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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis
de Groot, Henri L.F.; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - 2007
Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally … structure characterised by its extent of specialisation, competition and diversity, to yield innovation and productivity growth … (diversity) and Porter externalities (competition) that have provided alternative explanations for innovation and urban growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325386
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Regional Clusters of Innovative Activity in Europe: Are Social Capital and Geographical Proximity the Key Determinants?
de Dominicis, Laura; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Groot, … - 2011
effectiveness and efficiency of national and European innovation policies. Building on the literature on the knowledge production …
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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …
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