This paper draws on the results of World Bank Enterprise surveys to investigate the relation between financials constraints and innovation performance for a sample of firms in 9 African nations: Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana and the...

Much of the core research on the determinants of innovation traditionally has focused on the role of formal processes of R&D and on the importance of the skills and expertise of scientists and engineers with third-level education. In research on national innovation systems there has been a...

This chapter draws on the results of a 3-year EU funded project designed to development guidelines for collecting harmonized data on organisational change and its economic and social impacts. Following a general introduction focusing on the importance of organisational practices and process of...

Recent work on national systems of innovation has argued that there are systemic relations between national labour market and education and training systems, and the dynamics of knowledge creation and innovation at the enterprise-level. Building on the insights of this research, this paper used...

Az EU 2005-ben elfogadott Lisszaboni Stratégiájának foglalkoztatási és munkaerő-piaci céljai közé tartozik a munka minőségének és a termelékenységének fejlesztése a munkahelyeken, továbbá a szociális kohézió erősítése és a munkaerőpiac bővítése. Az ilyen jellegű...

Az EU 2005-ben elfogadott Lisszaboni Stratégiájának foglalkoztatási és munkaerő-piaci céljai közé tartozik a munka minőségének és termelékenységének fejlesztése a munkahelyeken, továbbá a szociális kohézió erősítése és a munkaerőpiac bővítése. Az ilyen jellegű...

This paper draws on the results of World Bank Enterprise surveys to investigate the relation between financials constraints and innovation performance for a sample of firms in 9 African nations: Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana and the...

Based on a unique dataset on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) among employees in Denmark, we investigate within-job relationships between AI use and skill requirements. We show that the effects of AI are varied and depend on providing orders to humans versus providing information for...

This paper explores changes in the organisation of work in European nations over 2000-2010. Results show a decline in the Discretionary Learning (DL). Periods of economic expansion tend to be DL enhancing, while periods of economic stagnation tend to reinforce the use of more hierarchical forms...