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The Development of Knowledge in Portugal: A Slow and Unsustainable Progress

Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular behaviour induced very negative economic and social consequences given …

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Do innovation dimensions matter in China’s cross-regional income differences?

Yang, Jingjing; Khalil, Sana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies the interlinks between innovation inputs and outputs and between innovation outputs and economic … development. Using a panel data-set from 31 regions of China, we show that the difference in regional innovation output can be …

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Education, Development and Knowledge: New Forms of Unequal Change Under Globalization. The Case of SSA Countries

Chagas Lopes, MARGARIDA - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular behaviour induced very negative economic and social consequences given …

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R&D investment, productivity and rates of return: A meta-analysis of the evidence on OECD firms and industries

Ugur, Mehmet; Guidi, Francesco; Solomon, Edna; Trushin, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly following the contributions of Zvi Griliches and others to microeconometric work in late 1970s and early 1980s. This study aims to meta-analyse the research findings based on OECD...

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Non-technological and Mixed Modes of Innovation in the United States. Evidence from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey, 2008-2011

Sanchez, Juana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper presents a novel empirical study of innovation practices of U.S. companies and their relation to … productivity levels using new business micro data from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) for the … outputs of innovation activities into four latent unobserved innovation modes or practices for OECD countries using Community …

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Competitividade no sector automóvel e formas inovadoras de gestão do emprego em Portugal

Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

If indicators of international competitivity of the Portuguese industry reveal very strong weaknesses in the field of education and vocational training, the achievement of a solution is not based only (and should not!) in a decisive increase of investment and support in the education and...

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The Role of Employee Retention and Employee Productivity on the Performance of Oil & Gas Sector of Pakistan

Hunjra, Ahmed Imran; Raza, Hassan; Munir, Irfan Ullah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Purpose: Human resource management practices are essential for managers to be followed that need to be implemented and new processes that continuously be practised by different level of employees. The objective of this study is to examine the association between the employee retention, and...

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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...

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Revisiting Import-Substituting Industrialisation in Post-War Brazil

Colistete, Renato P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post-war years and became more technologically sophisticated,...

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Productivity in China's high technology industry: Regional heterogeneity and R&D

Zhang, Rui; Sun, Kai; Delgado, Michael; Kumbhakar, Subal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper analyzes the impact of Research and Development (R&D) on the productivity of China's high technology industry. In order to capture important differences in the effect of R&D on output that arise from geographic and socioeconomic differences across three major regions in China, we use...

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