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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 lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic convergence with the most advanced economies and to offset...
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...
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Innovation, productivity, and training
Dostie, Benoît - 2014
The firm's stock of human capital is an important determinant of its ability to innovate. As such, any increase in this stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms' human capital investments and innovation performance,...
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Does initial vocational training foster innovativeness at the company level? : evidence from German establishment data
Matthies, Eike; Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Thomä, Jörg; … - 2022 - Updated version
While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have a positive impact on firm-level innovation, empirical evidence on the subject remains scarce. This study exploits establishment data from a representative survey of German...
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Does initial vocational training foster innovativeness at the company level? : evidence from German establishment data
Matthies, Eike; Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Thomä, Jörg; … - 2021
While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have a positive impact on the innovative capacity of training companies, empirical evidence on the subject remains scarce. This study exploits establishment data from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495922
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The Officina Emilia Initiative:Innovative Local Actions to Support Education and Training Systems
Russo, Margherita; Mengoli, Paola - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2009
The issue of the regeneration of skills, in particular in the light engineering industry, is addressed by Officina Emilia (henceforth OE) as a crucial one in order to re-examine the interweaving of education, innovation and local development in the SMEs production systems. The project, aimed at...
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Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Italy: Structure and Changes at National and Regional Level
Russo, Margherita; Mengoli, Paola - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 1998
Even though the institutional framework is strongly centralised, Italy displays important territorial differences in the education system. Historically, such differences are interwoven with territorial differences both in economic and social development. This is the background of our analysis of...
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Incentives and creativity in groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … also when individuals work together to solve such problems. We do not find a negative impact of incentives on group … performance. As a comparison we ran the same experiment (the Candle Problem) with and without incentives for individuals as well …
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … monetary incentives improve all teams’ outcomes without crowding out teams’ willingness to explore or perform similar tasks …
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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltán J. (contributor); Sanders, Mark (contributor) - 2008
. -- Intellectual property rights ; endogenous growth ; entrepreneurship ; incentives ; knowledge spillovers ; rents …
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