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Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...
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stimulate education to foster human capital formation. When combined, human capital and social capital are likely to yield …
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This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and economic growth in the European Union. We identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into economic growth. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002,...
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During the recent period, we observe that many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But the empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to...
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that the number of agents enrolled in higher education is a determinant of growth. Moreover, when a country is sufficiently …, while higher education presents the opposite shape. These findings support the main assertion of Aghion and Cohen (2004 …) that countries which are near the technology frontier have to invest in higher education while those far away from the …
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This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in … this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan …: first, positive but low rate of return to education and correlations between education, experience, its square and wages for …
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education, enhance consistency of education, training and skill development policies and encourage collaboration between public …This paper discusses the education, training and skill development policies in Sudan using a combination of new … efficiency criterion related to the supply and demand sides of education and training policies in Sudan. We provide a new …
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We estimate the impact of worker remittances on savings, taxes, and public expenditures on education, all as a share of … money on education when remittances come in; in the richer sample they raise less taxes and spend less on education in … response to remittances but this is almost completely compensated by the positive response of expenditure on education to …
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Conventionally, standards are considered as a governance tool in the production system in a one-directional and hierarchical relationship between foreign trans-national corporations (TNCs) or global buyers on one hand and subsidiaries and producers on the other. They were considered as...
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The product lifecycle model can be understood as a three-stage model of technological development associated with a particular product technology. In the explorative stage many different designs are developed, in the development stage products become standardized into a dominant design, and in...
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