Showing posts with label knowledge economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knowledge economy. Show all posts
Saturday, September 30, 2017

30/9/17: Technological Revolution is Fizzling Out, as Ideas Get Harder to Find

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Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb’s latest paper has just landed in my mailbox and it is an interesting one...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

28/9/17: Irish Migration: Some Good News in 2017

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While headline figures for net migration to Ieland paint an overall positive picture in the annual data (provided on April-April basis) ...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

22/10/15: Gig Economy and Human Capital: Evidence from Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment

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In a couple of weeks, I will be speaking about the role of human capital in the emergence of the new economy at the CXC Corporate event “ ...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

27/12/2014: Are Graduate Students Rational?

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A fascinating study into expectations formation mechanism for career outlooks by entering doctoral students in the US. Authored by Blume-K...
Monday, February 10, 2014

10/2/2014: Data shows Irish R&D policy is not exactly producing...

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Today, Grant Thornton published their review of the Irish R&D Tax Credits policy , available here: http://www.grantthornton.ie/db/Atta...
Friday, July 26, 2013

26/7/2013: Forfas Report 2012: A Handy Guide to 'Egg-Face' Collision

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Ireland has been described as a 'Knowledge Economy", a science and R&D intensive economy, and island of Scholars (yes, while ...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

8/11/2012: OECD Internet economy outlook 2012: Part 5 Conclusions

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By now, I have posted 4 different posts on the OECD Internet Economy Report 2012 and the implications arising from the OECD data fo...
Monday, November 5, 2012

5/11/2012: OECD Internet economy outlook 2012: part 4

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This is the fourth note on the OECD Internet economy report 2012 ( part 1 ,  part 2 and part 3 are linked here). We hear much about th...

5/11/2012: OECD Internet economy outlook 2012: part 3

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In part 1 and part 2 earlier I took a look at some stats coming from the OECD report published today and positioning Irish internet econ...

5/11/2012: OECD Internet economy outlook 2012: part 2

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Here comes the second post on OECD Internet Economy Outlook 2012 report (first in the series was here ), focusing on Ireland and the mythol...

5/11/2012: OECD Internet economy outlook 2012: part 1

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Quite an interesting chart from OECD on Ireland and its peers in terms of the spread / reach of the ICT economy. Now, keeping in mind tha...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

08/12/2011: An even greater threat

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Here's an even greater threat to Ireland's 'economic model' - the one based on attempting to attract into this country a ne...
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Saturday, November 5, 2011

05/11/2011: Patents and 'sticky' ROI on academic investment

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In the previous post I covered some interesting data on hotspot universities (high impact academic institutions) around the world based on ...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

11/08/2011: Another 'black eye' for services supporting our 'knowledge economy'

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Here's a disturbing story (hat tip to @BriMcS via Twitter) about the trials and tribulations of the Irish 'knowledge economy' ar...
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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Economics 6/11/10: Is Modern Academia Failing?

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A very interesting paper titled "Withering Academia?" by Bruno S. Frey was published by CESIFO Working Paper 3209, October 2010 (d...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Economics 19/7/10: Urban growth, education & knowledge intensive services - part 2

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In the previous post ( here ) on the issues of growth, education and knowledge intensive sectors, I showed that There is a strong positive...