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Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.
Lokshin, Boris; Gils, Anita van; Bauer, Eva - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 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/10005150811
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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 and … - 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/10005150755
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Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe
Akcomak, Semih; ter Weel, Bas - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150802
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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers: Evidence from The Indian Manufacturing Sector
Sasidharan, Subash - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 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/10005150858
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Evaluating Collaborations in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities and Challenges for Social Network Analysis
Zickafoose, Joseph S.; Kimmey, Laura D.; Tomas, Amber; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
Multidisciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration has become a key feature of comparative effectiveness research … (CER), and CER funders have made promotion of these types of collaboration an implicit, and sometimes explicit, goal of … funding. An important challenge in evaluating CER programs is understanding if and how different forms of collaboration are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103408
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Pediatric Primary Care as a Component of Systems of Care.
Brown, Jonathan D. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009
Systems of care for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances have historically not included linkages with primary care. As part of a special issue of Evaluation and Program Planning focused on redefining systems of care, this article proposes that the inclusion of primary care as...
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The Importance of Collaboration in Comparative Effectiveness Research
Kimmey, Laura D.; Rich, Eugene - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262507
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Preparing for Productive Careers: Students' Participation In and Use of Career-Focused Learning Activities
Haimson, Joshua; Deke, John - Mathematica Policy Research - 2003
Helping students formulate career goals and prepare for successful careers continues to be an important educational objective pursued by many high schools. This report examines the challenges faced by a recent cohort of high school students as they sought to define and achieve their goals, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261995
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What Do Effective Teachers of Inner-City Children have in Common?
Murnane, Richard J.; Phillips, Barbara R. - Mathematica Policy Research - 1981
This paper investigates the extent to which variables describing the classroom behavior of teachers and variables describing teachers' backgrounds and training explain differences in the effectiveness of teachers in improving the vocabulary skills of inner-city black children in four elementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261996
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How Do Test Scores at the Floor and Ceiling Affect Value-Added Estimates?
Resch, Alexandra; Isenberg, Eric - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
Some educators are concerned that students with test scores at the bottom or top of the test score distribution will negatively affect the value-added estimates of teachers of those students.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262023