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Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.
Lokshin, Boris; Gils, Anita van; Bauer, Eva - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856369
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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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Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe
Akcomak, Semih; ter Weel, Bas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
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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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers: Evidence from The Indian Manufacturing Sector
Sasidharan, Subash - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856451
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How do social capital and government support affect innovation and growth? Evidence from the EU regional support programmes
Akcomak, Semih; Ter Weel, Bas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
stimulate education to foster human capital formation. When combined, human capital and social capital are likely to yield …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712117
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Using Innovation Surveys for Econometric Analysis
Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of the data they contain and the challenge they pose to the analyst and the econometrician. We document the two uses that have been made of these data: the construction of...
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A Systems Perspective on Inter-Firm and Organizational Collaboration in African Industry
Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2004
-organizational collaboration in African industry. Three sets of interactions were analyzed namely: firm-firm linkages, including user-supplier and … multivariate analysis, we examined the channels and institutions for collaboration and tested three hypotheses. Collaboration with … little incidence of such collaboration was recorded. However, collaboration among suppliers of inputs, subcontractors and …
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