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The learning economy and embodied knowledge flows in Great Britain
Tomlinson, Mark - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 9 (1999) 4, pp. 431-451
British labour market between 1980 and 1992. Following a discussion of the learning and knowledge economy, cross …-sectional employment data are analysed to ascertain which occupations can be classified as knowledge-based. Longitudinal career history … data are then used to trace the flows of these `knowledge workers' over time. Sectoral shifts are examined, with a …
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Incentives and creativity in groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342449
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Is increasing productivity COVID-19's silver lining?
Blit, Joel - 2020
Recent evidence for the U.S. suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources, which in turn increase aggregate productivity and lead to a higher standard of living. I present evidence suggesting that the same is true in Canada. In...
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Education or creativity : what matters most for economic performance?
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2011
There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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Regional development and creativity
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2012
The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the...
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The Creativity Premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
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Managerial skills, technology adaptation and firm performance : mediating role of process innovation and product innovation
Asghar, Nabila; Khattak, Amira; Danish, Muhammad Hassan; … - In: Cogent business & management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-18
innovation and product innovation using the PLS-SEM technique. The data for this study is collected from 150 managers of … adaptation are positively and significantly related to process and product innovation. Indirect and total effects show that … managers' skills, technology adaptation, process innovation, and product innovation are positively and significantly related to …
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Driving Productivity by Innovation? Analysing German Law Firms
Habicht, Hagen; Heidemann, Friedrich; Ross, Alastair - 2014
This study gives an overview about innovation management as driver of productivity in German law firms. It is the first … surveyed about their latest innovations, their innovation strategies, management efforts, and customer integration which impact … a company’s productivity. In addition, major innovation trends and key challenges in the industry have been collected …
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