Human capital’s dual impact: Advancing innovation and technology diffusion in ASEAN-5 through the Nelson-Phelps-Romer Lens

Nguyen Ngoc Thach

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0333784

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Human capital’s dual impact: Advancing innovation and technology diffusion in ASEAN-5 through the Nelson-Phelps-Romer Lens

Nguyen Ngoc Thach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: thachnn@hub.edu.vn

Affiliation Department of International Economics, Ho Chi Minh University of Banking, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8822-2633

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Human capital’s dual impact: Advancing innovation and technology diffusion in ASEAN-5 through the Nelson-Phelps-Romer Lens

Nguyen Ngoc Thach

Published: November 12, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333784

About the Authors

Nguyen Ngoc Thach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: thachnn@hub.edu.vn

Affiliation Department of International Economics, Ho Chi Minh University of Banking, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8822-2633

Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interests.

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