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The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
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Height and Leadership
Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2...
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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies
Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
State subsidies to R & D or innovative investments in firms are organized in many different ways. Examples from the plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently...
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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies
Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
State subsidies to R & D or innovative investments in firms are organized in many different ways. Examples from the plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019056
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KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION DYNAMICS:Developing Strategic Innovation Capability
Kodama, Mitsuru - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
features: the vertical value chain model, cross-industry collaboration, dynamic knowledge integration, and strategic innovation …Since the 1990s, Japanese firms have sought to expand their capacity for innovation by incorporating Western management … successful — Japanese firms are presently at the forefront of technological and service innovation in areas such as digital …
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