“There must be a stream of new scientific knowledge to turn the wheels of private and public enterprise. There must be plenty of men and women trained in science and technology for …
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between individual work- related curiosity and worker innovation and to test the mediating role of worker divergent …
T Jung, O Ejermo - Technological forecasting and social change, 2014 - Elsevier
Using population-wide data on inventors and their demographic characteristics, the paper analyzes trends and patterns by technologies in age, the level of education, and gender …
E Miguelez - The World Bank Economic Review, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of highly-skilled individuals—that is, inventors—on international technological collaborations. Using gravity models, it studies …
Like the US before it, Japan has adopted a series of policy initiatives designed to encourage the commercialization of academic science. However, such initiatives may also adversely …
K Hoisl, M Mariani - Management Science, 2017 - pubsonline.informs.org
This study examines differences in income and job performance between women and men in creative, highly skilled jobs tasked with achieving technological inventions. By building on …
M Berliant, M Fujita - Southern Economic Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
How is long run economic growth related to the endogenous diversity of knowledge? We formulate and study a microeconomic model of knowledge creation, through the interactions …
A Nager, DM Hart, SJ Ezell… - Available at SSRN …, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
Behind every technological innovation is an individual or a team of individuals responsible for the hard scientific or engineering work. And behind each of them is an education and a …