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This report develops a set of indicators of innovation in a number of the natural resource industries in Canada. It … then uses these indicators to assess trends in innovation over time in these industries. The innovative performance of … industries in other countries. The report finds that on most innovation indicators, Canadian natural resource industries perform …
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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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persist. Private spending on innovation is very low and Russia underperforms in terms of scientific outputs and patents …. Support for low-tech innovation and technology adoption, especially among SMEs is narrow because of a bias towards large and …
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production. Of these, innovation is found to be the most important. Since research and development activity has been historically …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of innovation activities and their impact on firm performance … examine the relationship between innovation activities, ownership structure and firm performance we apply instrumental … variable (IV) technique, which enables us to control for the endogeneity between innovation activities undertaken by firms and …
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This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked with survey data that provide information on an extensive...
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ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient...
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innovation and product innovation using the PLS-SEM technique. The data for this study is collected from 150 managers of … adaptation are positively and significantly related to process and product innovation. Indirect and total effects show that … managers' skills, technology adaptation, process innovation, and product innovation are positively and significantly related to …
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How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study … when combined with higher education policy that alleviates financial frictions for talented youth. Education and innovation …
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Has the economy fundamentally changed in the 1990s because of the introduction of information technology or is the impact of IT not so much "new" as larger than before? In this article, Barry Bosworth and Jack Triplett of the Brooking Institution examine this issue with a detailed analysis of...
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