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The employment impact of innovation in the heterogeneous universe of services was studied using data from the 2004 …-2009 Uruguayan service innovation surveys. The empirical evidence shows that the impact of product innovation on employment is … positive, while process innovation appears to have no effect. The effect varies according to the skill level of the labor force …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and employment, in terms of both its quantity … and quality, in Uruguay. The effect of product and process innovation on employment growth and on employment composition … in terms of skills was studied, using data from manufacturing firms' innovation surveys, matched against economic …
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This executive summary describes the motivation behind this book, the methodologies used, and both the breadth and limits of the studies. The impact evaluations on which the book is based cover the use of ICT in finance, institutions, education, health, the environment, and labor, as evidenced...
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recent years. This paper explores whether and to what extent we can consider lack of innovation and technology adoption as a … main reason for this disappointing experience. The paper starts by documenting that technology adoption and innovation are …
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Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
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This paper analyzes the trends and challenges of competitiveness and innovation in the tourism and telecommunications …
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SME Metasys: A Business Management System for SMEs
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This report focuses on the determinants of the first type of research output: new knowledge. There are no direct measures of this type of research output, but several proxies have been typically used. The two most important ones that we will apply during the study are (a) publications and (b)...
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This paper examines the current and emerging trends in mobile health, with particular emphasis on lessons learned and on potential opportunities for Latin America to apply mobile services to health care efforts to benefit the majority of people.
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What is Free Software, Why Free Software , Disadvantages of Free Software, What's Missing in Free Software Today , The Metasys Solution
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