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research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
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This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …
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barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …
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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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productivity imparted by the knowledge economy. At the same time, equality of opportunity for participation in higher education … in Europe as in the US. Asian countries may - as a result - have improved their position in innovation. The room for …
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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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