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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...
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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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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...
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stimulate education to foster human capital formation. When combined, human capital and social capital are likely to yield …
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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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-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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This paper examines the gender gap in education and investigates the related implications on the labour market and … returns to education in Sudan. Our results confirm two stylized facts: first, the incidence of significant gender gap in … education in Sudan and second, the incidence of gender inequalities and gap in skill level, share of women in economic …
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characteristics of poor Arab regional systems of innovation is apparent from both the poor subsystems of education, S&T and R&D and … systems of higher education, S&T, R&D, technological infrastructure, ICT and scientific cooperation to build the Arab regional …
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This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in … this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan …: first, positive but low rate of return to education and correlations between education, experience, its square and wages for …
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that the number of agents enrolled in higher education is a determinant of growth. Moreover, when a country is sufficiently …, while higher education presents the opposite shape. These findings support the main assertion of Aghion and Cohen (2004 …) that countries which are near the technology frontier have to invest in higher education while those far away from the …
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