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Education Impact Study: The Global Recession and the Capacity of Colleges and Universities to Serve Vulnerable Populations in Asia
Postiglione, Gerard - eSocialSciences - 2010
efficiency, and regional collaboration. This paper proposes a series of measures to increase the resilience of higher education …€”need not delay reforms in higher education. In fact, the global recession is an opportune time for higher education in the Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465102
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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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Intra- and Inter-national University-Industry Linkage and Innovation in Emerging Economies: Evidence from China
Fu, Xiaolan; Li, Jizhen; Hughes, Alan - eSocialSciences - 2012
The different role of intra- and inter-national university-industry collaboration in industrial innovation in emerging … economies are investigated. Based on a national firm-level survey database from China, it finds that collaboration with domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567997
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Participation in a School Incentive Programme in Karnataka
Bernhardt, Sharon - eSocialSciences - 2006
Development education policy has recently focused on school-based recognition and conditional cash transfer programs to … that focus on levels (rather than changes) of achievement can exacerbate inequality in education. In addition, our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528325
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Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation: The Long Term Effects of Political Violence in Perú
Leon, Gianmarco - eSocialSciences - 2010
.21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498202
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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomised Experiments in India
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Cole, Shawn; Linden, Leigh - eSocialSciences - 2006
to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341841
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The Great Education Muddle: State Failure and Judicial Jigsaw
Radhakrishnan, P. - eSocialSciences - 2005
A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170133