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How Are Innovation, Growth, and HCIF Affected by Natural Resources?

How Are Innovation, Growth, and HCIF Affected by Natural Resources?

Seyed Mohammad Amir Mousavi
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 34
ISBN13: 9781522574262|ISBN10: 1522574263|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522586678|EISBN13: 9781522574279
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7426-2.ch006
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Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad Amir. "How Are Innovation, Growth, and HCIF Affected by Natural Resources?." Global Perspectives on Human Capital-Intensive Firms, edited by Cécile Cézanne and Laurence Saglietto, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 121-154. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7426-2.ch006

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Mousavi, S. M. (2019). How Are Innovation, Growth, and HCIF Affected by Natural Resources?. In C. Cézanne & L. Saglietto (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Human Capital-Intensive Firms (pp. 121-154). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7426-2.ch006

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Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad Amir. "How Are Innovation, Growth, and HCIF Affected by Natural Resources?." In Global Perspectives on Human Capital-Intensive Firms, edited by Cécile Cézanne and Laurence Saglietto, 121-154. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7426-2.ch006

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Abstract

This chapter demystifies in detail the transmission mechanisms of how the natural resource industry (NRI) harms the growth and innovation in human capital-intensive firms (HCIF). Two important phenomena were studied qualitatively: rent seeking (RS) and Dutch disease (DD) which result from the abundance of natural resources (NR). RS pushes down the return of production and DD results in uncompetitive production. The empirical results for a cross-section of 81 countries show a significant evidence that with recent data, oil rent hinders human capital as a proxy for innovation. Meanwhile, the indicators of resource governance show a significant and positive impact on human capital accumulation. A growing amount of literature focuses on growth and human capital, while this chapter emphasizes HCIF and innovation, elaborating the transmission mechanisms of underperforming economic growth through the hindrance of innovation in the firms and awkwardness of HC.

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