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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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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856391
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856299
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712393
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Philippines - Education Policy Reforms in Action : A Review of Progress Since PESS and PCER
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678141
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Benchmarking the Governance of Tertiary Education Systems
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201307
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Haiti : Can Non-Public Schools Fill the Gap for Poor Children?
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2015
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Reshaping the Future : Education and Postconflict Reconstruction
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank
The aim of this volume is to draw international attention to the key role that education can play in both preventing … the devastating consequences of conflict on a country's education systems and outcomes, as well to emphasize the … importance of maximizing the opportunities to reform education systems presented by a reconstruction setting, adopting a long …
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