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Never in the past 30 years has productivity growth been lower than since the 2008 global financial crisis, and never has income inequality been higher than it is today in Japan, and in the OECD area. The two challenges have some common origins, including a widening productivity and wage gap...
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A creative economy requires innovation-friendly conditions. Korea’s innovation system should be improved by upgrading … level. The returns from Korea’s large investment in innovation should be enhanced by improving framework conditions – easing … adoption of new technology. Venture businesses and start-ups should play a key role in commercialising innovation. To make …
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and carefully-designed innovation policies. …
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role of workplace training will be important. So too will be further measures that support the innovation capacity of the … business sector, including innovation policies that promote the absorptive capacity of firms and do not favour incumbents at …
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to focus innovation policies on raising the participation of small and medium enterprises in innovative activities. …
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– proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents – across 19 OECD countries. The relationship between innovation … these measures of innovation intensity and MFP growth. Innovation-specific policies such as R&D tax incentives, direct … forthcoming. A pervasive theme from the analysis is the importance of coupling policies aimed at encouraging innovation or …
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strengthening its links with the business sector and global innovation networks. To take advantage of innovation, the relatively low …
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The Irish economy has experienced a decline in productivity growth over the past decade. This has mostly reflected the poor performance of local firms, with the large productivity gap between foreign-owned and local enterprises having widened. Given the mobility of foreign-owned firms, achieving...
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Making SMEs and start-ups a driver of growth and job creation requires a number of policies to improve the performance of SMEs, whose labour productivity in the manufacturing sector has fallen to less than a third of that in large companies. The large-scale support for SMEs should shift from...
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