Human Capital and University-Industry Linkages’ Role in Fostering Firm Innovation: An Empirical Study of Chile and Colombia

Marotta, Daniela; Michael, Mark; Blom, Andreas; Thorn, Kristian

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1862248

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“…The benefits of university-industry collaboration are also evident in developing countries. For example, a study in 2007 showed that collaboration with universities substantially increased the propensity of firms to introduce new products and to patent (Marotta, Mark, Blom, & Thorn, 2007).…”

Section: The Need For Curriculum Re-design In Universitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-Designing Higher Education Curriculum for Sustainable Development

Cheruto¹,

Chepchumba²,

Tuitoek³

2018

UCER-A

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Kenyan higher education has grown tremendously in the recent years. Today, there is virtually a campus or an institution collaborating with a university in most urban centers. Following the promulgation of the new constitution in 2010 in Kenya, education is a basic human right. Consequently, it has continued to receive support from both the government and the private sector. Higher education has been commercialized as seen in the craze for establishment of some university campuses without sufficient learning and research facilities. What is more, individuals, parents, and benefactors are willing to go to all lengths to ensure that their children get degrees with the hope of uplifting their living standards. The Kenyan universities are graduating thousands of students each year to the job market, and hence, the huge numbers of graduates are unemployed. In the midst of all this, there is need for redesigning of the university curriculum to be more innovative and focus on meeting the government's development agenda as envisioned in Vision 2030 and a move towards achieving the millennium development goals (MDG) of poverty eradication. The future university ought to be on the forefront by providing sustainable solutions for the many challenges we faced. This paper discusses the various strategies that institutions of higher learning can adopt in a bid to be agents of sustainable development.

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Section: The Need For Curriculum Re-design In Universitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-Designing Higher Education Curriculum for Sustainable Development

Cheruto¹,

Chepchumba²,

Tuitoek³

2018

UCER-A

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“…Further, the role of knowledge in enterprise performance and countries' economic success has been addressed by researchers. The reason is that economic growth based on an increase in the number of resources is characterized by diminishing returns and is not sustainable (Marotta et al, 2007). This attracted attention to human capital and innovations as drivers of long-term economic growth.…”

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“…Specifically, the idea behind endogenous growth models is that knowledge generates both the direct effects for a firm and spillovers from which the other firms in the economic benefit. Therefore aggregate production function demonstrates increasing returns to scale, making possible long-term economic growth (Marotta et al, 2007). We are interested in the quality of management, as it makes possible efficient use of the available technologies and can facilitate the creation of new knowledge.…”

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The Impact of Management Quality on Firms' Innovation and Productivity in Russia

Mariev¹,

Davidson²,

Nagieva³

2020

CEBR

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Innovations are among the most important drivers of firms' productivity improvement. Newly introduced products and processes, as well as organizational and marketing practices, are important for firms' performance and for countries' prosperity. In this paper, we analyze how management processes influence firms' innovation and performance based on Russian data. Our main research question is how the quality of management affects innovative results and thereby, productivity. We employ a survey of enterprise activities, and business climate BEEPS covering the period 2012-2014 and including 1564 firms. Based on the existing literature, we create a framework to study the impact of various factors on firms' innovation and productivity. We study both internal factors such as a firm's quality of management and external factors such as innovation climate in the region and availability of private and public financing. A model applied in our research is a well-known CDM model containing three stages. This model makes it possible to analyze expenditures for research and development, implementation of innovations, and then its impact on the firm's performance. Estimation results demonstrate that enterprises benefit from innovations. The same time, our research shows the importance of management quality in the firms' innovative activities among the other internal and external factors affecting innovations. Results can be applied by the enterprises interested in innovations and by policymakers involved in facilitating innovations at the regional and country level. Implications for Central European audience: A version of a well developed CDM model is used, which makes results reliable; the model can be further applied for the analysis of various economies, including the countries of Central Europe. Our research sheds light on the determinants of innovation activity at all its stages, creating a background for analysis and development of economic policy. A key implication is that management quality deserves attention along with other factors affecting firms' innovation and productivity. The research is based on firm-level BEEPS data for Russia, making the possible comparison with the other countries covered by BEEPS survey.

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“…In light of this information, resource dependency theory can explain the relationship between solidarity and innovation performance. In the related literature, small firms, which are weaker in terms of financial and human resources, appear to be more productive through university-industry solidarity (George, Zahra, & Wood, 2002;Hanel & St-Pierre, 2006;Marotta, Mark, Blom, & Thorn, 2007). It is emphasized that they can benefit from the creative and competent workforce who are not the actual employees at the current firms in order to create innovative products and services (Black & Lynch, 1996), and also stated that the firms that are in solidarity with the universities will be more effective in the innovation activities (Anatan, 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%