Age, Human Capital and the Geography of Innovation

Frosch, Katharina; Tivig, Thusnelda

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“…That is, a high level of technological capability impedes explorative innovation. Frosch (2007) has established that the share of younger academic workers has a significant positive effect on patenting output (significance levels between 1% and 5%). Schneider (2007) has studied the trend of an ageing workforce on the innovation capacities by using an empirical approach based on an ordered-logit regression model.…”

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Determinants of innovation as a competence: an empirical study

Waychal

Mohanty

Verma

2011

IJBIR

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This paper posits that innovation as a competence generic from individuals and the environment in which they are engaged. It focuses on individuals by proposing a method for measuring innovation as a competence. It is postulated here that innovation as a competence involves a set of competencies such as: visioning, ability to generate ideas, internal and external networking relationship, ownership to the organisation, stretch mindset, focus on tasks and decision making. However, these competencies are determined by gender, age, reading habits and educational background of individuals, etc. It is attempted here to construct an empirical model and analyse the impacts of the determining parameters on innovation as a competence. The empirical analysis suggests significant differentiating determinants. The study has been carried out in an Indian information technology company. The findings may facilitate human resource decision making relating to competency management.Keywords: innovation as a competence; information technology industry; human resource development; empirical research; ordinal logistic regression; business innovation and research.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Waychal, P., Mohanty, R.P. and Verma, A. (2011) 'Determinants of innovation as a competence: an empirical study', Int. Determinants of innovation as a competence193 Biographical notes: Pradeep Waychal is engaged in Research in IT-enabled Business Transformation and Innovation Management at IIT Mumbai and has over 25 years of industry and academic experience. His other research interest areas include technology, people and quality management. R.P. Mohanty is the Chair Professor and Dean with ITM Group of Institutions located in various metro cities of the country. He has 32 years of academic experiences in institutes of national (India) importance and in some foreign universities. He has ten years of industry experience in top management positions. He advises academic institutions and industries, supervises research scholars and undertakes sponsored research projects. He has published more than 250 papers in scholarly peer reviewed international journals and has also authored eight books. Many professional institutions both in India and abroad have honoured him.Ajit Verma is engaged in Research and Academic Development Work for the last 25 years of his career and has published more than 180 papers in international conferences and journals of repute. He is on many editorial boards. His research interests are software quality assurance and innovation management.

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Determinants of innovation as a competence: an empirical study

Waychal

Mohanty

Verma

2011

IJBIR

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“…According to the theory of human capital, individuals become less innovative with age (Sidibe, 2005;Frosch & Tivig, 2007), so young heads of households are more likely to acquire new knowledge and learn new techniques (Sidibe, 2005). Age may also reflect farmer debt and asset position, with older farmers having lower debt-asset ratios, implying that older farmers will opt away from new techniques (Chambers & Foster, 1983).…”

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Cooperative patronage: The National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi in Kasungu District

Matchaya

2010

Development Southern Africa

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This paper estimates the determinants of farmers' decisions to join a rural producer organisation, the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM), in Kasungu District. Data for the study were collected in June and August 2003 using household-level questionnaires and stratified random sampling, where strata were membership status and gender. Probit analysis of 250 farmers shows that off-farm sources of income, distance of the farmer's household from Kasungu District centre, age of the farmer, tobacco farming, education, household level land holding and gender determined the decision to join NASFAM. These results suggest that farmers should be informed of the potential benefits of participating in rural development efforts, and that rural communication and information infrastructure should be improved so as to reduce the costs of information access and transactions in general, if participation in organisations such as NASFAM is to be enhanced.probit analysis, farmers' cooperatives, NASFAM membership, Malawi,

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“…The percentage of the population aged 15–24 is included to control for regional demographic composition, the relevance of which to innovation has been verified by empirical examination (e.g., Frosch & Tivig, ; Poot, ). GDP per capita is considered to control for a region's relative wealth and overall level of socioeconomic development.…”

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Innovating in less developed regions: What drives patenting in the lagging regions of Europe and North America

Rodríguez‐Pose

Wilkie

2018

Growth and Change

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Not all economically disadvantaged—“less developed” or “lagging”—regions are the same. They are, however, often bundled together for the purposes of innovation policy design and implementation. This paper attempts to determine whether such bundling is warranted by conducting a regional level investigation for Canada, the United States, on the one hand, and Europe, on the other, to (a) identify the structural and socioeconomic factors that drive patenting in the less developed regions of North America and Europe, respectively; and (b) explore how these factors differ between the two contexts. The empirical analysis, estimated using a mixed‐model approach, reveals that, while there are similarities between the drivers of innovation in North America's and Europe's lagging regions, a number of important differences between the two continents prevail. The analysis also indicates that the territorial processes of innovation in North America's and Europe's less developed regions are more similar to those of their more developed counterparts than to one another.

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Age, Human Capital and the Geography of Innovation

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Determinants of innovation as a competence: an empirical study

Determinants of innovation as a competence: an empirical study

Cooperative patronage: The National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi in Kasungu District

Innovating in less developed regions: What drives patenting in the lagging regions of Europe and North America

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