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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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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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are local amenities and knowledge spillovers. These results are as well as con rmed for the high-skilled agents. …
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costs and environmental impacts. This research analyzes important tools that could be used by PLM to formalize knowledge for … sustainable new products development in a company. It offers an overview and compares different approaches to share knowledge, to … carry out innovation and to reduce CO2 emissions, materials and energy, as well as developing regulation compliance treated …
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creative industries are most likely to concentrate in large urban regions, where innovation and cross-fertilization of ideas …
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particular relevance for policymakers designing regional development strategies around innovation issues: is it more important to … focus on attracting creatives through "place investments" so that potentials for innovation are boosted, or to make sure …
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This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 … organizational innovations. On the other hand, we considered various regional characteristics including knowledge stock, market …
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The paper presents a case study of an example in educational design of teaching innovation and entrepreneurship at a … higher education (Academy Profession Programme). A challenge when teaching innovation is, that students resist engaging … fall 2018 we experienced some groups of students changing their minds about innovation and entrepreneurship. They went from …
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innovations as well as a higher innovation intensity. Interestingly, the results are of equal magnitude in the manufacturing and … services industries. The results support the view that big data analytics have the potential to enable innovation. …
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