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of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …
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To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …
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The purpose of this research is to examine a driving force behind innovation - human capital - which we contend is … useful in identifying and exploiting opportunities in both goods and services contexts. Traditional predictors of innovation … theory, this research proposes that investment in employees is an innovation predictor that embraces the nuances of both …
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knowledge and experience among employees (particularly in the intergenerational aspect). The key objective of the programme was … key knowledge workers (the employees with the greatest practice and achievements in the organisation). The programme can … knowledge workers, most often constituting in organisations the age group of 50 or 60 …
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' participation in initial VET on their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models and instrumental variable … regressions with entropy balancing show that the impact of VET activity on innovation is more ambiguous than postulated. Overall …, the participation in initial VET has virtually no effect on product innovation and radical novelties. For the total …
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We examine the relationship of financial expert CEO on firm innovation. Using CEO individual level and firm-level data … significant negative impact on firm innovation. A financial expert CEO causes 17.5% decrease in firm innovation level. We argue … make a separate examination about this impact on innovation that acquired from outsiders …
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