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Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jo – Education Economics, 2019
We focus on human capital measured by skills and analyse its relationship with R&D investments and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 industries. We compute a measure of sectoral human capital defined as the average cognitive skills of the workforce in each country-sector combination. The variation in labour productivity that can be…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Research and Development, Productivity, Cross Cultural Studies
Gryskiewicz, Stanley S., Ed.; Hills, David A., Ed. – 1992
This book was created to place side by side the ideas of researchers and practitioners concerned with organizational innovation. Included are 18 papers: (1) "Social Environments That Kill Creativity" (Teresa Amabile); (2) "High Creativity versus Low Creativity: What Makes the Difference?" (Teresa Amabile and Sharon Sensabaugh); (3) "Creativity and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Innovation, Leadership, Organizational Development
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Denning, Peter J.; Hiles, John E. – Computer Science Education, 2006
Transformational Events is a new pedagogic pattern that explains how innovations (and other transformations) happened. The pattern is three temporal stages: an interval of increasingly unsatisfactory ad hoc solutions to a persistent problem (the "mess"), an offer of an invention or of a new way of thinking, and a period of widespread adoption and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Innovation, Sequential Approach, Prediction
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Pea, Roy D.; Tinker, Robert; Linn, Marcia; Means, Barbara; Bransford, John; Roschelle, Jeremy; Hsi, Sherry; Brophy, Sean; Songer, Nancy – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1999
The National Science Foundation-funded Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT) is designed to be a national resource for stimulating research and development of technology-enabled solutions to critical problems in K-14 science, math, engineering, and technology learning. The rationale and operations of the Center and first-year progress…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. – 1986
In response to the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy request to identify promising areas for U.S. research investment in science and technology, this report contains briefings by outstanding researchers in several fields of science. This volume is the fifth in a series of briefings which are used to anticipate important new…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Futures (of Society), Government Publications, Innovation