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Työolot ja tuottavuus: Työpaikkavirtojen nosteessa vai puristuksessa?
Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Johansson, Edvard; Maliranta, Mika - 2008
Analyses in this paper do not support the idea that job and worker flows have become more intensive and have deteriorated working conditions in the Finnish business sector. The magnitude of flow has in fact been rather stable since 1997. However, job flows are at a quite high level, as some 10%...
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The adoption of ICT: Firm-level evidence from Irish manufacturing industries
Haller, Stefanie; Traistaru-Siedschlag, Iulia - 2007
This paper examines factors driving ICT adoption at firm level. We use a novel data set including information on ICT and e-commerce in Irish manufacturing firms over the period 2001-2004 and estimate a model derived from the new technology adoption literature that relates ICT adoption indicators...
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Product Heterogeneity, Within-Industry Trade Patterns, and the Home Bias of Consumption?
Auer, Raphael - 2009
Starting with Krugman (1980), much literature has analyzed how trade liberalization affects the economy based on the notion that trade is motivated by consumer's love of variety. In this paper, I augment these preferences by the determinants of demand for heterogeneous products. The model...
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Product Heterogeneity, Cross-Country Taste Differences, and the Consumption Home Bias
Auer, Raphael A. - 2013
This paper starts by showing that in the European car industry, there exist cross-country taste differences along the product attribute dimension that significantly drive net trade patterns and reduce the volume of trade. Further it is shown that, after the creation of the European common...
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The role of data and knowledge in firms' service and product innovation
Koski, Heli - 2012
findings emphasize the role of a firm's absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …
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Structural change, technology and economic growth: Brazil and the CIBS in a comparative perspective
Cimoli, Mario; Pereira, Wellington; Porcile, Gabriel; … - 2008
share of technology-intensive sectors in their economic structures benefit more from technological learning and innovation …
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Tendenzen in der deutschen Industrie - Effekte veränderter Finanzierungsbedingungen und neuer IuK-Techniken
Vieweg, Hans-Günther - In: ifo Schnelldienst 56 (2003) 09, pp. 23-27
Das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie beauftragte das ifo Institut, den Zusammenhang zwischen sich rasch verändernden Rahmenbedingungen und dem Wandel von Unternehmensstrukturen und -strategien in der Industrie zu untersuchen. Als zentrale Bereiche, die einen wesentlichen...
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The Quintuple Helix innovation model: Global warming as a challenge and driver for innovation
Carayannis, Elias G.; Barth, Thorsten D. - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 1 (2012), pp. 1-12
The Triple Helix innovation model focuses on university-industry-government relations. The Quadruple Helix embeds the … innovation model is even broader and more comprehensive by contextualizing the Quadruple Helix and by additionally adding the … higher education for innovation. However, in one line of interpretation it could be argued that the Triple Helix places the …
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Knowledge and economic progress: The role of social technologies
Eggertson, Thráinn - 2008
I focus on the independent role of social innovation in economic progress. Modern theory of economic growth and …
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What Follows Tertiarisation? Structural Change and the Role of Knowledge-based Services
Peneder, Michael; Kaniovski, Serguei; Dachs, Bernhard - 2001
The rise of the service economy has been the predominant pattern of structural change in the twentieth century. This article investigates the driving forces behind the recent stages of this development. Focusing on international input - output data from the early 1970s to the 1990s, a...
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