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waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … innovation. …
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Why is modern society capable of cumulative innovation? In A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy, Joel …
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innovation comes about and the speeds of both invention and diffusion. For much of human history, innovation had been primarily a … mills or the printing press. The mechanisms that account for innovation becoming a routine activity in terms of the …
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Debates about the future of work frequently reference past instances of transformative innovation to preface analysis … overview of the current debates around the potential effects of impending labor-replacing innovation. We then summarize …
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A fundamental problem in the field of the economics of innovation is how to explain the sources of path … problem by developing the theoretical framework of global leadership-driven innovation, which endeavors to explain the general …
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Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …
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This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...
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This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
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/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both …
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This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019248