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This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …
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liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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particular emphasis on technological innovations which takes into consideration learning, capability building and innovation. …
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This papcr uses a new firm panel data set to explore the relationship between R&D and productivity in German manufacturing firms for the period from 1979 to 1989. The results confirm the view that K&D is an important determinant of productivity growth. In the cross-section, the elasticity of...
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The purpose of this paper is to model the production of innovation in the financial sector firms and to quantify its … Respondents Database, 2005 and matched with the Fourth Community Innovation Survey, 2002 to 2004. The results show that … consistently with what is found in other papers in this field, investment in R%D is not relevant for the production of innovation …
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heavy electrical industry firms, compares organization behaviour, management decision making, Innovation research and …
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' innovation behaviours can be analysed and exploited in order to assess the technological performance of the economy. Three … empirical applications using French data are derived from the previous argument. Our results show first that innovation is … highly persistent. Moreover benefits (in terms of productivity) resulting from innovation are differentiated according to the …
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Motivated by the recent reversal in labor productivity growth, this paper is analyzing the relationship between R&D expenditures and productivity. Time series data of the German manufacturing industry is used to estimate a variable cost function, with the stock of knowledge being modeled as a...
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