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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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Procuring Innovation
Cabral, Luís M B; Cozzi, Guido; Denicolò, Vincenzo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
To stay on top of global competition, firms and governments often need to acquire innovative goods and services, including ideas and research, from their strategic suppliers. A careful design of procurement policy is crucial to make potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable...
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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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HDR 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
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Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Teams in Malaysia: Its Benefits and Barriers
Velmurugan, Manivannan Senthil; Kogilah, Narayanasamy; … - In: Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) 09 (2010) 02, pp. 145-159
This paper examines the benefits of knowledge sharing in virtual teams of companies in Malaysia. The paper also looks into the barriers that prevent or prohibit the practice of knowledge sharing in virtual teams within an organisation. There are basically three types of barriers discussed in...
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THE ROLE OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TO SMES DEVELOPMENT (ALBANIA CASE)
Lect. Enkela CACA, Ph.D; Prof. Evis KUSHI, Ph.D - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2011) 17, pp. 141-149
and development, in particular to SMEs development in transition economies. Since Albanian economy is still developing, it …
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Technology, Engineering, and Economics
Sporn, Philip - The MIT Press
From the foreword by Howard W. Johnson: "Philip Sporn's long and distinguished career has been at the interface of economics, engineering, and management. His accomplishments as an engineer, an engineering manager, and finally as an executive, have been marked by an innovative approach to...
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Communicating Technical Knowledge
Bessen, James - Research on Innovation - 2010
Firms reduce the marginal cost of communicating technical knowledge by “formalizing” it in standards, dominant designs or other ways. But this only pays when new technology is sufficiently developed. In a simple model with endogenous communication costs, two equilibria emerge. With...
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Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the U.S. Steel Industry
Collard-Wexler, Allan; De Loecker, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel, the minimill, on the aggregate productivity of U.S. steel producers, using unique plant-level data between 1963 and 2002. We find that the sharp increase in the industry's productivity is linked to this new technology, and...
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