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research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
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This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …
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productivity imparted by the knowledge economy. At the same time, equality of opportunity for participation in higher education … in Europe as in the US. Asian countries may - as a result - have improved their position in innovation. The room for …
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employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …
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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …
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Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …
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We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
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implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers' knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
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source of innovative activities within companies. Broken down by sectoral innovation patterns, this article examines the role … of formal education and actual occupation for product innovation performance in manufacturing firms within a probit model … to the Pavitt classification. Sectors with a high share of highly skilled employees engage in product innovation above …
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