Similar Search Results

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth - past experience, current knowledge and policy implications

Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

insights have also been gained as to how entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge are interrelated. Yet, a comprehensive … understanding is still lacking concerning the interface of all of those variables: knowledge, innovation, entrepreneurship and … commercialization through innovation, and the role of the entrepreneur in the growth process. The policy implications of recent research …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626062

INCREASING RETURN TO SMART CITIES

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

Increased urbanization, global warming and sustainable growth belong to the major contemporary policy challenges. Today cities are home to more than 50% of the world population, the largest 600 urban centers generate about 60% of global GDP, and the agglomerated areas are responsible for 75% of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742102

Skill and Cross-National Economic Performance

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

The role of human capital in shaping cross-national economic performance is well-understood. But human capital is an indirect measure of skill, based on educational attainment. We introduce and test a more direct measure of skill, based on work that is actually performed, measured by occupation....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626066

Productivity of and Returns to Knowledge Investments

Andersson, Åke E - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Information and knowledge are essential to the decision making of firms. However, information is a primitive in the formation of knowledge. Information and the related concepts of risk and surprise are primarily of importance for rational decision making while knowledge is a form of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190552

Returns to Education

Andersson, Åke E - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

This study gives an account of theory, models and measurements of returns to higher education, seen as the results of economically rational investment decisions. The focus is on returns in the form of increased wages and salaries. These returns vary considerably between different countries and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644929