research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …

, the quality of most patents is still low and innovation output is weak. Reforms are underway to address these problems but … knowledge economy. Among the priorities are more and better oriented funding of education, giving greater opportunities to … nurturing research and innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of China www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-china.htm …

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 …

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …

of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …

negative impact on knowledge capital. These findings suggest that without appropriate policy responses, BC makes developing …

The aim of this paper is to develop a spatial model that explicitly incorporates the different types of knowledge … knowledge via face-to-face interactions. Our model incorporates two forms of knowledge spillovers happening in these meetings … whose intensities are dependent on the similarity of knowledge background of the interacting individuals: First, the …

. We estimate the effect of medical innovation on cancer patients' labor market outcomes employing tax return and cancer … registry data from Canada and measuring medical innovation by using the number of approved drugs and a quality-adjusted patent … innovation are limited to cancer patients with postsecondary education, raising concerns about unequal access to improved …

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 …