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Is Tolerance Good or Bad for Growth?
Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael - 2010
We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320301
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Is tolerance good or bad for growth?
Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael - 2010
We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321391
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Creativity and Industrial Cities: A Case Study of Baltimore
Ács, Zoltán J.; Megyesi, Monika I. - 2007
Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy. Creative metropolises base … metropolises. Using data from the US Census Bureau and research on creativity measures, this case study concludes that Baltimore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271764
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Creativity and industrial cities: a case study of Baltimore
Ács, Zoltán J.; Megyesi, Monika I. - 2007
Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate po-licy. Creative metropolises base … metropolises. Using data from the US Census Bureau and research on creativity measures, this case study concludes that Baltimore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271767
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The geography and the effect of creative people in Germany
Fritsch, Michael - 2007
This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative oc-cupation in Germany. The population share of the Creative Class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places and rural regions may also have a considerable proportion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263781
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Creative class and regional growth: empirical evidence from eight European countries
Boschma, Ron A.; Fritsch, Michael - 2007
We analyze the regional distribution and the effect of people in creative occupations based on data for more than 450 regions in eight European countries. The geographic distribution of the creative class is highly uneven. The creative class is not attracted to highly urbanized regions per se,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263818
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Creativity, analytical skills, personality traits, and innovation game behavior in the lab: An experiment
Bäker, Agnes; Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, … - 2011
participants' performance in the innovation games is in fact related to their creativity, risk tolerance and self-control. Other …&D or patent data. This research, however, is only poorly informed about the psychological tradition of creativity research …. Our study is an attempt to experimentally collect behavioral data revealing in how far creativity, analytical skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281675
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The development gap between the CIS and EU
Sinitsina, Irina; Atamanov, Aziz; Chubrik, Alexander; … - 2008
); * innovation potential, including R&D, information and communication technologies, and institutional environment; * openness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326590
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Does Qualification Drive Innovation? A Microeconometric Analysis Using Linked-employer-employee Data
Brandenburg, Bianca; Günther, Jutta; Schneider, Lutz - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269968
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Innovation and social capital: Across-country investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009
This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271793