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, the quality of most patents is still low and innovation output is weak. Reforms are underway to address these problems but … knowledge economy. Among the priorities are more and better oriented funding of education, giving greater opportunities to … 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 …
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of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
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negative impact on knowledge capital. These findings suggest that without appropriate policy responses, BC makes developing …
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. We estimate the effect of medical innovation on cancer patients' labor market outcomes employing tax return and cancer … registry data from Canada and measuring medical innovation by using the number of approved drugs and a quality-adjusted patent … innovation are limited to cancer patients with postsecondary education, raising concerns about unequal access to improved …
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Are laboratory safety practices a tax on scientific productivity? We examine this question by exploiting the substantial increase in safety regulations at the University of California following the shocking death of a research assistant in 2008. Difference-in-differences analyses show that...
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intergenerational mobility and innovation, and find robust evidence that higher mobility is associated with increased innovation. …
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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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