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Device‐mediated customer behaviour on the internet: A systematic literature review
Wolf, Lukas - In: International Journal of Consumer Studies 47 (2023) 6, pp. 2270-2304
The proliferation of smartphones, tablets and other digital devices in addition to traditional computers has transformed the Internet into a device‐mediated environment. While these devices provide immediate access to similar Internet sources, they differ significantly in their...
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Assessing a relative technological competitiveness using patent and paper information at the country level: Model and application in mobile communications
Cho, Ilgu - 2012
level evaluation have been evaluated on only expert surveys or restricted patent and paper information respectively. However … identify different results depending on the methodologies. In this paper, we evaluate the technological capabilities using … patent synthetic indicators, paper synthetic indicators, and composite technology level evaluation of patent and paper …
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Behavioural isomorphism, cognitive economy and recursive thought in non-transitive game strategy
Dyson, Benjamin J. - In: Games 10 (2019) 3, pp. 1-14
methodologies for understanding decision-making under pressure. In the non-transitive game rock, paper, scissors (RPS), the only …
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The elite brain drain
Hunter, Rosalind S.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Charlton, Bruce G. - 2009
We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with large R&D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on...
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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: evidence from Europe's top R&D investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - 2009
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...
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Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level …
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When supply meets demand: wage inequality in Portugal
Centeno, Mário; Novo, Álvaro A. - 2009
Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined with skill-biased technological changes are at the core of this evolution. Since 1995,...
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
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New Firm Survival and Human Capital
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004
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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004
Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...
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