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This paper proposes to explain the productivity growth slowdown with the poaching of disruptive inventors by firms … disruptive innovations to confirm the main features of the model: Disruptions increase future research productivity, hurt …
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This essay is based on a presentation at the American Accounting Association Strategy Retreat in May 2011 on the assertion ‘‘Accounting research as of 2011 is stagnant and lacking in significant innovation that introduces fresh ideas and insights into our scholarly discipline.’’ It poses...
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Our science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to America's innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the...
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As knowledge production becomes more specialized, studying complex and multi-faceted empirical realities becomes more difficult. This has created a growing need for cross-fertilization and collaboration between research disciplines. According to prior studies, the sharing of concepts, ideas and...
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This paper explores knowledge services clusters (KSCs) as a distinct and increasingly important form of geographic cluster, in particular in emerging economies: KSCs are defined as geographic concentrations of lower-cost skills serving global demand for increasingly commoditized knowledge...
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, as can much-debated trends relating productivity growth and patent output to aggregate inventive effort. The knowledge …
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the decline in productivity growth as the result of large firms trying to monopolize technologies by poaching inventors …
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This review of the innovation literature seeks to identify the role of skilled labor in the process of innovation and technological change. After an introduction of main innovation theories, the role of skills is analyzed from several perspectives: (1) Independent innovator – entrepreneur;...
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impact of innovation on labour productivity using firm data from national innovation and administrative surveys. To ensure … per employees achieve higher labour productivity, even when the size of firms, the intensity of human and physical capital … and labour productivity at the beginning are taken into account. The results add valuable further information to and are …
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