Picking up speed: Does ultrafast broadband increase firm productivity?

Does Sex Speed Up Evolutionary Rate and Increase Biodiversity?

Most empirical and theoretical studies have shown that sex increases the rate of evolution, although evidence of sex constraining genomic and epigenetic variation and slowing down evolution also exists. Faster rates with sex have been attributed to new gene combinations, removal of deleterious mutations, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments. Slower rates with sex have been attributed to...

Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors?

Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism for transferring tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive performance. Additionally, existing research has neglected the differences in gains from a move between high and lower performing inventors. This paper adds to the current R&D literature by presenting a jointly...

Does Social Software Increase Labour Productivity?

Social software applications such as wikis, blogs or social networks are being increasingly applied in rms. These applications can be used for external communication as well as knowledge management enabling rms to access internal and external knowledge. Firms can optimize customer relationship management, marketing and market research as well as project management and product development result...

Picking up patterns in language

Laura Batterink is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. She earned her BA in neuroscience from Middlebury College in 2007 and her PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Oregon in 2012. Her research focuses on the contribution of implicit and explicit mechanisms to language acquisition and related forms of learning. This research has implications for understanding why ...

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