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This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement … from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters …
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The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor … market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate …) product innovations have a positive impact on employment growth; (ii) process innovations do not affect employment growth …
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The relationship between venture capital and growth is examined using an endogenous growth model incorporating dynamic contracts between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. At each stage of financing, venture capitalists evaluate the viability of startups. If viable, venture capitalists...
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This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … Colombian manufacturing firms, by extending a CDM model to include women’s participation in science, technology and innovation … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on …
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This paper applies the Directed Technical Change (DTC) framework to study improvements in the efficiency of energy use. We present a theoretical model which (1) shows that the demand for energy is shifted down by innovations in energy intensive sectors and (2) highlights the drivers of...
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contributes to an economic exposition of China's potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path … capital investment and incentives of capital stock accumulation rather than R&D-related innovation. Accumulation of energy …-consuming capital stock along this non-innovation-led growth path thus leads to an intensive use of fossil energy - an energy …
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investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and … and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable growth path. We show that if R&D technological innovation is … environmental quality improves at a rate of 2.5%. In contrast, if R&D technological innovation is not harnessed as a new growth …
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-country differences in the efficiency of foreign technology absorption and indigenous innovation lead to cross-country divergence in the … undertaking indigenous innovation tends to gain a higher level of energy productivity. …
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This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can …, consumers trade off leisure versus consumption, and firms trade off innovation efforts versus manufacturing. For this model, we … indirectly by inducing a smaller proportion of the labor force to engage in innovation. …
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This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … the general literature, which measures skills by looking at the foreigners' level of education. We show that cultural … diversity consistently increases the innovation performance of European Countries. -- Cultural Diversity ; Innovation ; Skilled …
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