The Innovative Capacity of an Aging Workforce:

In times of sweeping demographic changes, policy makers and business executives in mature economies perceive workforce aging as one potential threat to the capacity for innovation and technological progress. However, evidence for age-dependency in innovative performance is still scarce. Pressing que...

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1. Verfasser: Frosch, Katharina (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Backes-Gellner, Uschi (HerausgeberIn), Kräkel, Matthias (HerausgeberIn), Pull, Kerstin (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:German
Veröffentlicht: Mering Rainer Hampp Verlag 2011
Ausgabe:1. Auflage
Schriftenreihe:Beiträge zur Personal- und Organisationsökonomik
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Zusammenfassung:In times of sweeping demographic changes, policy makers and business executives in mature economies perceive workforce aging as one potential threat to the capacity for innovation and technological progress. However, evidence for age-dependency in innovative performance is still scarce. Pressing questions in this context are for example: - Does workforce age affect the innovative capacity of firms and regions, and if so, how and through which transmission channels do these effects occur? - What are the sources of possible age-dependency in innovative performance, in particular with respect to innovation-relevant human capital? - What are the policy implications of the interplay between workforce age and the capacity to produce technological advances in times of future workforce aging? Starting from a comprehensive survey and critical discussion of existing studies about the interplay between workforce age and innovation, this book suggests a new conceptual framework to study the age-dependency of innovation. Based on this, three empirical studies investigate how the age composition of a workforce affects inventive performance in European regions, to what extent certain staffing patterns experienced by German firms boost innovative performance and how a region's entrepreneurial capacity relates to the age composition of its working-age population
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (179 Seiten)
ISBN:9783866187184