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Information and Communication Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening
Otto, Kate; Shekar, Meera; Herbst, Christopher H.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...
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Chinese online literature : creative consumers and evolving business models
Ren, Xiang; Montgomery, Lucy - In: Arts marketing : an international journal ; AM 2 (2012) 2, pp. 118-130
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675847
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Verification of Performance in Results-Based Financing Programs: The Case of Plan Nacer in Argentina
Perazzo, Alfredo; Josephson, Erik - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Verification in results-based financing (RBF) mechanisms is one of the key differentiators between it and related health financing structures such as social health insurance. Verifying that providers have achieved reported performance in RBF mechanisms is considered a crucial part of program...
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Generic Lean Six Sigma project definitions in publishing
de Koning, Henk; Does, Ronald J.M.M.; Groen, Arjan; … - In: International Journal of Lean Six Sigma 1 (2010) 1, pp. 39-55
Purpose – Many companies in the publishing industry are facing the task of developing new business models and becoming … efficiency and quality improvements; it can help realize significant results and breakthrough improvements in the publishing … industry, as demonstrated with many projects from a Dutch multinational publishing company. The purpose of this paper is to …
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LexisNexis turns the spotlight on innovation
In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 5, pp. 14-16
Purpose – Describes an award‐winning training program that helped to increase innovation at business‐information provider LexisNexis. Design/methodology/approach – Explains the reasons for the training, how it was developed and delivered and the results it has achieved. Findings –...
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Returns to Inventors
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - 2010
A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their inventors to Finnish employer-employee data. Returns are...
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Inventing Together: Exploring the Nature of International Knowledge Spillovers in Latin America
Montobbio, Fabio; Sterzi, Valerio - 2009
, United Kingdom, and United States). Byusing patents and patent citations at the United States Patent and Trademark Office we … spillovers, patent citations related spillovers, and face-to-face contact spillovers. Ourresults, based on data for Argentina … effects, bilateral patent citations and face-to-face relationships between inventors are bothimportant additional mechanisms …
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Construction of a global knowledge input-output table
Davies, Ronald B.; Kogler, Dieter F.; Yang, Guohao - 2023
classifications. It further provides a network of patent citations, thus indicating how patents build from existing knowledge and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540366
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Growth through heterogeneous innovations
Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2013
regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations … into our theoretical framework. The framework generates a simple test using patent citations that indicates that entrants …
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Returns to inventors
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - 2010
A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their inventors to Finnish employer-employee data. Returns are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950450