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. Technology, despite being very important, is not the only factor that ensures the success of an intervention. This paper presents … and analyzing the results, we conclude that technology projects are a means to expand people's choices, but also to …
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Using panel data from the Chinese Industrial Surveys of Medium-sized and Large Firms for 2000–2006, we show that the presence and the magnitude of technological spillovers from FDI in the People's Republic of China are affected by the source of FDI, by the ownership type of a firm in...
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Innovation in technologies that promote mitigation and adaptation will be critical for tackling climate change. It can … innovation have focused on mitigation, while little attention has been paid to innovation for adaptation. This paper uses … vulnerable to climate change, in addition to facing the pressures of meeting the demands of a rising world population. Innovation …
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Strengthening the innovation system in the Netherlands is a priority for raising productivity growth, which has been … sixth highest in the OECD -- but innovation activity is only around the average for OECD countries according to the EIS … Summary Innovation Index. The main weaknesses are in business R&D intensity, the share of the population with tertiary …
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Increasing productivity growth through innovation is a key to raising living standards. Although R&D intensity in Japan …. The innovation system, which developed during the catchingup process, is largely input-driven and focused on incremental … innovation based on closed and stable corporate and employment systems. However, this approach is less appropriate in the current …
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factor productivity gains, which are in turn driven to a large extent by innovation. While a number of Korean firms are at … the world technology frontier in areas such as ICT, the diffusion of technology to lagging sectors is a priority to … sustain growth. This paper recommends policies to improve the science and technology system by upgrading the R&D framework, in …
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Both anecdotal evidence and the innovation literature indicate that important advances in energy technology have made …
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Examining 2148 innovating service firms from the Spanish Technological Innovation Panel 2004, this paper utilizes … Latent Class Analysis to appraise the scope of innovation cooperation in services in the Spanish economy, in accordance with … the growing weight of external information flows throughout innovation processes. The empirical evidence indicates that …
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Analysing 474 cases of firms going public in the German capital between 1892 and 1913, we show that innovative firms could rely on the Berlin stock market as a source of financing. The data also reveal that initial public offerings (IPO) of innovative firms were characterized by particularly low...
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bubbles. Our tests suggest that innovation was a key driver of bubble expectations. We present evidence against the currently … evidence consistent with the innovation-driven bubble dynamics documented by Pastor and Veronesi (2009) for new economy stocks …
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