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This article discusses the visions about nuclear breeder reactors, plans set out in the aftermath of World War II. This seemed like the ideal solution for future energy, and even small countries, as Sweden, launched breeder reactor programs. The breeder reactor never reached industrial...
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(MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …, innovativeness is strongly dependent on corporate and ownership structure. Third, the returns to innovation efforts are positively …
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automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …
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discussion about what academic researchers in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation know about sources that influence …, innovation, and enterprise dynamics need to know about the sources of ideas that lead to new technology and innovation, and I …
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cost implies that firms save money by smoothing innovation spending across the business cycle if they have available … so, we investigate possible differences in the innovation-cash flow link between high-tech firms and all exporters …, creation and exploitation innovation activities, persistent and non-persistent exporters. Applying a modified Euler model and …
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U.S. technology-based initiatives at the state level continue to emphasize regional economic development and job growth. Many are now also focused on green technologies. This paper describes one such green program, the North Carolina Green Business Fund. Based on an analysis of 24 funded R&D...
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Innovation Research (SBIR) program, of which 624 had been discontinued prior to technical completion, we provide for the first …
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innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have …
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sense that they have only given a partial picture. One obvious example is that discus¬sions of the role of innovation and … ignored the high degree of innovation and entrepreneurship within many incumbent companies. The purpose of this paper is to … contribute to the meso- and micro-economic literature on innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy. …
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of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …
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