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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"
Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015
China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399425
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Firm-Level Human Capital and Innovation : Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli - 2017
manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets from China: one from metropolitan cities, and one from provincial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960108
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Firm-Level Human Capital and Innovation : Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli - 2017
manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets from China: one from metropolitan cities, and one from provincial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962761
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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets from China: one from metropolitan cities, and one from provincial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615502
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An integrated analysis of the impact of gender diversity on innovation and productivity in manufacturing firms : prepared for the institutions for development sector
Gallego, Juan Miguel; Gutiérrez Urdaneta, Luis H. - 2018
This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882005
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Gender Difference in Innovation Recognition : A Textual Analysis Approach
Li, Zihao; Liu, Shaoyu - 2023
This paper studies gender inequality in the recognition of innovations. Using modern natural language processing on … over 1.5 million patents between 1980 and 2015, we find significant gender differences in inventors’ patent citations …. Changing the gender structure of an inventor team from all-female to all-male increases the probability of omitting an all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343927
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Boosting productivity and living standards in Thailand
Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Rahuman, Mohamed … - 2018
The Prosperity pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for an integrated approach based on boosting productivity through diversification, upgrading technology and innovation, and increasing employment and entrepreneurship. Thailand needs to address all these challenges to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914179
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Medical Innovation, Human Capital Productivity, and the Cross Section of Stock Returns
Zhou, Tong - 2019
Medical innovation enhances labor health, promotes human capital productivity, and influences asset prices. Using a manually collected dataset on drug approvals to identify medical innovation, I first confirm its direct impact on human capital -- a higher medical innovation shock predicts a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901148
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Can the University Save Europe?
Ritzen, Jo - 2012
Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing research more on societal problems, while being better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331415
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Foreign and native-born STEM graduates and innovation intensity in the United States
Winters, John V. - 2014
This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity in U.S. metropolitan areas. I find that both native and foreign-born STEM graduates significantly increase metropolitan area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM...
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