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relation to innovativeness. As the measurement for national innovativeness we took the Summary Innovation Index. The fragments … clusters that identify Innovation Leaders, Innovation Followers, Moderate Innovators, and Catching-up countries. We found …
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authors find that the stock of human capital, the level of domestic innovation and technological adaptation, and the level of ….15 percentage point. In terms of innovation, the authors find that a 20 percent increase in the annual number of USPTO patents …
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their home countries for two years after participation in the Exchange Visitor Program on a J-1 visa. While well-intended to …
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innovative technologies. In doing so, it brings to the fore a two-way interaction between human capital and innovation. The paper …
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This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
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ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient...
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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
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Ten years ago, a devastating earthquake, tsunamis and nuclear accident in Japan took thousands of lives and affected millions of people. This unprecedented disaster generated numerous lessons for policymakers in Japan and around the world on how to prepare, respond to and recover from shocks,...
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The aim of our paper is to provide a comprehensive picture of the role of innovation within the entrepreneurial … be observed between the innovation capability of a country and other elements of its entrepreneurial ecosystem. Ninety …, there are three pillars associated with three different aspects of innovation: Technology Absorption, Product Innovation …
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We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is affected by country … participation is more responsive to schooling in land-abundant countries, and less responsive in human capital-abundant countries … participation and its responsiveness to schooling, by lowering the opportunity cost of production income foregone. In an extension …
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