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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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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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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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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, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …
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The present paper analyses the perception of innovation of individuals in Spain and the factors associated with it … innovation perception, gender, age, educational level, and other socioeconomic and technical variables. The aim of this paper is … to determine the perception of innovation, in its different aspects, of Spanish people. To this end, several ordered …
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We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
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Recent evidence suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources. Consistent with this, I show that in the three previous Canadian recessions, routine jobs were disproportionately lost. COVID-19 is likely to have a similar impact,...
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To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
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