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HDR 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837640
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Internal Migration, Selection Bias and Human Development: Evidence from Indonesia and Mexico
Deb, Partha; Seck, Papa - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to measure the returns to migration using non-experimental data taking both observed and unobserved characteristics into account. A significant challenge related to migration research and the issues of unobserved heterogeneity is that the standard 2stage least squares...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507006
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Migration and Educational Outcomes of Children
Schapiro, Kristina A. - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
. It discusses the various channels through which migration affects the education and wellbeing of non-migrant children in …. To conclude, the paper recognizes the policy challenges surrounding the migration-education linkage and considers some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507025
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HDR 1997 - Human Development to Eradicate Poverty
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467213
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Equilibrium vs Evolution in the Resource-Based Perspective The Conflicting Legacies of Demsetz and Penrose
Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997
This paper argues that not only Edith Penrose, but also Harold Demsetz should be seen as a dominant source of inspiration for RBP scholars, that these two crucial influences hold different and even conflicting views of the economic process, and that they helped found different research areas and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273130
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The Emerging Knowledge Governance Approach Challenges and Characteristics
Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as a distinctive, emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management, organisation studies, strategy, and human resource management. Knowledge governance is taken up with how the deployment of governance mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260609
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Restructuring and Embeddeness Of Business Enterprises - Towards An Innovation System Perspective On Diffusion Policy
Teubal, Morris - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997
The paper deals with the policies for an idealized transition of a National System of Innovation (NSI) from a system reflecting a relatively closed industrializing economy to an NSI which reflects the conditions of a well-developed "Information Society" and "Learning Economy". The analysis of...
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The Social Dimension of the Learning Economy
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996
This paper is a slightly revised version of Bengt-Åke Lundvall's Inaugural Lecture, the 10th of November at Department for Business Studies, Aalborg University. The general message is that the growing frequency of so-called paradoxes in economic theory and of unsolved socioeconomic problems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273149
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Diversity of Innovative Strategy as a Source of Technological Performance
Llerena, Patrick; Oltra, Vanessa - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000
This paper explores the impact of diversity of innovative strategies of firms upon the industrial dynamics through a micro-simulation model. We consider two types of firms each one being characterised by a specific innovative strategy. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839256
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The Further the Better? Knowledge Intensive Service Firms' Collaboration on Innovation
Vinding, Anker Lund; Drejer, Ina - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
Three hypotheses in relation to knowledge intensive service firms’ collaboration in relation to development of new … away than the main innovation partner of firms with a low level of absorptive capacity; and iii) collaboration with distant … associating the innovative output of cross-border collaborations with a higher degree of novelty than collaboration with local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169039