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Despite the growing body of literature concentrating on service innovation, empirical research focusing on measuring its impact, mainly at firm-level, remains scarce. Adopting the perspective that the ability to monitor the service innovation process and to assess its impact is a pre-condition...
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and practice in business and management and also identifies future research avenues. This study examines the benefits and … bibliometric analysis of 198 studies in the discipline of Business & Management from the Scopus database was conducted using the R …
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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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Science, technology and innovation (STI) have played a key role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented socio-economic crisis it has triggered. This paper explores how the pandemic affected STI in 2020, including how STI was mobilised to provide vaccines, treatments and...
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This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...
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We show that academic directors significantly increase firms’ R&D investment and innovation outputs. Following an academic director’s death and relative to a non-academic director’s death, the average firm reduces R&D by 2.0% of total assets and its market value of innovations declines by...
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Brazil's main challenge in innovation policy is to encourage the business sector to engage in productivity … the business sector. Output indicators, such as the number of patents held abroad, suggest that there is much scope for …&D support and trade competitiveness. To be successful in boosting business innovation, these policies will need to be …
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This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602763
In recent decades, Chinese researchers have become preeminent contributors to the scientific enterprise, as reflected by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential to push forward the global frontier, but mere production...
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