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Modeling Agricultural Innovation in a Rapidly Developing Country: The Case of Chinese Pesticide Industry
Shi, Guanming; Pray, Carl E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021219
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Separating Myth from Probability: the Origins and Evolution of QWERTY
KAY, NEIL - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
We use basic probability theory and simple replicable electronic search experiments to evaluate some reported “myths” surrounding the origins and evolution of the QWERTY standard. The resulting evidence is strongly supportive of arguments put forward by Paul A. David (1985) and W. Brian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878973
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Credit Constraints, Technology Choice and Exports - A Firm Level Study for Latin American Countries
Hasan, Syed M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This paper introduces technology choice and credit access constraints in Melitz (2003) model under a dynamic setting to explain the factors that limit the prospects of a firm from availing trade liberalization benefits. Two such constraints which are specifically relevant in a developing country...
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Market concentration and productivity in the United States corn sector: 2002-2009
Nolan, Elizabeth; Santos, Paulo; Shi, Guanming - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
There is a large literature which investigates the relationship between market concentration and innovation. It is … positive relationship between market concentration and innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881081
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New Economy Growth Decomposition in the U.S.
Adelaja, Adesoji O.; Hailu, Yohannes G.; Abdulla, Majd - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
; innovation and talent are potent in the New Economy; population dynamics, especially in the young and retiree segment of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012525
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Determinants of Food Industry Performance – Empirical Evidence Based on a Survey
Furtan, William Hartley; Sauer, Johannes - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
This paper empirically investigates the determinants of firms’ performance in the agri-food sector by using recent survey data for Denmark. Treating sales per employee as a proxy for value addition we estimate several bootstrapped regression models to draw conclusions on the marginal effects...
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The Impact of Alternative Market Orientation Strategies on Firm Performance: Customer versus Competitor Orientation
Micheels, Eric T.; Gow, Hamish R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Research studies have differed over the importance of the relative emphasis of a customer versus competitor orientation in the development of a market orientation (Slater and Narver, 1994; Tajeddini, 2010). In this study, we assess whether the emphasis of one component over another of a market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020414
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Long-run and Global R&D Funding Trajectories: The U.S. Farm Bill in a Changing Context
Pardey, Philip; Chan-Kang, Connie; Beddow, Jason M.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
-income countries—notably China, Brazil and India— are not only growing in relative importance as producers of agricultural innovations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125496
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Mandates and the Incentives for Innovation
Clancy, Matthew; Moschini, GianCarlo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
reasonable to expect that mandates would work well as an incentive for innovation? To address this question, we develop a partial … equilibrium model with endogenous innovation to examine the incentives for innovation in production under a mandate and compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068591
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Patents as Options: Path-Dependency and Patent Value
Richards, Timothy J.; Rickard, Bradley - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Enabled by the Bayh-Dole Act (1980), universities license access to innovations protected by US patents. Despite the growing importance of license revenue to cash- strapped land-grant universities that generate a large share of agricultural innovations, there has been no formal attempt to...
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