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U.S. High Technology Clusters
Acs, Zoltan J - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1993
It is well known that both "Silicon Valley" and "Route 128 Boston" owe much of their success ot the proximity of Stanford University and MIT. Knowledge spillovers from large research universities contribute to increasing returns, resulting in divergent development between clusters. This...
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Urban Governance of Disease
Katz, Rebecca; Mookherji, Sangeeta; Kaminski, Morgan; … - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 2, pp. 135-147
strengthen collaboration and communication among national and municipal agencies and between their local and international non …
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Past Fame, Present Frames and Future Flagship? An Exploration of How Health is Positioned in Canadian Foreign Policy
Labonté, Ronald; Runnels, Vivien; Gagnon, Michelle - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 2, pp. 162-185
Canada has been regarded as a model global citizen with firm commitments to multilateralism. It has also played important roles in several international health treaties and conventions in recent years. There are now concerns that its interests in health as a foreign policy goal may be...
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Către o politică industrială bazată pe aglomerări economice competitive – clustere
Dragoş, Pîslaru - In: Revista OEconomica (2005) 03
Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading. As nations develop, they progress in terms of their characteristic competitive advantage and modes of competing.
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Education in Post-Independent Eritrea – A Brief Description
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied … education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in …
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On the Quality of Private and Public Education: the Case of Chile
Garces-Voisenat, Juan-Pedro - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2009
quality of education. The purpose is to compare, in a completely dispassionate way, the academic achievements of public and … (voucher-type) program for subsidizing private education and because it has a fairly wide and accessible amount of data … pupil/teacher ratio. The quality of education is measured by the performance of students in standardized national tests …
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Time Discounting, Education, and Growth: Evidence and a Simple Model
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 59 (2009) 1, pp. 71-86
In the paper we propose a new channel through which education may promote economic growth: education makes people more … findings are consistent with the causal effect of education on the subjective discount rate. In the second part of the paper … wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
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A Model of Human Capital, Time Discounting and Economic Growth
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
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Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy
Altindag, Duha; Mocan, Naci - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...
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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies
Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …
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