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In Defense of Electricity as a General Purpose Technology
Kander, Astrid; Schön, Lennart; Enflo, Kerstin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2007
energy productivity and overall productivity in the American economy in the 1920s. This view was challenged by Nicholas and … Moser (2004) based on patent statistics. We argue that other methods are required for studying productivity effects and … propose cointegration analyses. We demonstrate a clear impact from electrification on energy productivity in those broad …
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Electrification and energy productivity
Enflo, Kerstin; Kander, Astrid; Schön, Lennart - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008
effect of electricity on energy productivity in Swedish industry 1930-1990. Electricity augmented energy productivity in … those industrial branches that used electricity for multiple purposes. This productivity effect goes beyond “book …
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Innovation and corporate employment growth revisited
Herstad, Sverre J.; Sandven, Tore - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2015
Using Norwegian Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data linked to public employment registers covering the years 2004 - 2010, this paper investigates the relationship between employment growth prior to the event of innovation, innovation output, and growth performance after the event. Positive...
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Linking scientific and practical knowledge in innovation systems
Isaksen, Arne; Nilsson, Magnus - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2011
New research indicates that firms combining the science-based STI (Science, Technology, Innovation) and the experience-based DUI (Doing, Using, Interacting) modes of innovation are more efficient when it comes to improving innovation capacity and competitiveness. With regard to innovation...
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Competence Building: A Systemic Approach to Innovation Policy
Borrás, Susana; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
The main question that guides this paper is how governments are focusing (and must focus) on competence building (education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the gap between the existing literature on competences on...
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The Choice of Innovation Policy Instruments
Borrás, Susana; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
The purpose of this article is to discuss the different types of instruments of innovation policy, to examine how governments and public agencies in different countries and different times have used these instruments differently, to explore the political nature of instrument choice and design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643164
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What Does Evolutionary Economic Geography Bring To The Policy Table? Reconceptualising regional innovation systems
Asheim, Bjørn; M. Bugge, Markus; Coenen, Lars; … - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
The article discusses the strategic roles of public policy and institutions and the way this effect to the efficiency of regional innovation systems in the landscape of evolutionary economic geography. It argues that the current emphasis on path dependency historically contingent preconditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643173
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Renewal of mature industry in an old industrial region: regional innovation policy and the co-evolution of institutions and technology
Coenen, Lars; Moodysson, Jerker; Martin, Hanna - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
The objective of this paper is to further insights on the potentials and barriers for industrial renewal in locked-in regions and industries. To do so, the paper analyzes the Swedish policy program ‘Biorefinery of the Future’ (BioF). This initiative is geared to develop a strong regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643590
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The challenge of alignment and barriers for the design and implementation of science, technology and innovation policies for innovation systems in developing countries
Chaminade, Cristina; Padilla Pérez, Ramón - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
This paper aims at shedding some light on the challenges of designing and implementing STI policies in developing countries. In particular, we discuss the problems of alignment of STI policies with the national economic development agenda, the alignment of innovation system policy with ST...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945048
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Path-following or Leapfrogging in Catching-up: the Case of Chinese Telecommunication Equipment Industry.
Liu, Xielin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2007
In this paper, by reviewing the development of telecommunication equipment industry from fixed phone switches to later 3G, TD-SCDMA, we conclude that the degree of matching between existing foreign products with Chinese market is the primary incentive for Chinese companies to catch-up. The...
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