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This paper examines the potential role of innovation policy in enhancing long-term productivity growth in Russia. It … respect to intellectual property rights and competition. Realising Russia’s innovation potential will also require reform of … well as the scope for improving the tax regime for private-sector R&D.<P>Augmenter l'efficacité de la politique de l'innovation …
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of indigenous entrepreneurs. This paper therefore argued for the provision of comprehensive innovation policy, in which … (competitive) obstacles to innovation; and strengthening the knowledge base through investment in education, research and …
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United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The … apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation ? A model is introduced in which … equilibrium in which innovating is rational though suboptimal, without premium on innovation being a real economic profit. The …
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-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no … national innovation rates. Its survey will show that, although a specific domestic institution or policy might appear to … explain a particular instance of innovation, they generally fail to explain national innovation rates across time and space …
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innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the … industrialisation and innovation in India, and argues that the distinction between the knowledge of “how to make” (manufacture) and the … knowledge of “how to make better” (innovation) was inadequately appreciated in development planning in the country. …
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innovation, when innovating agents have different costs and information transfer is expensive. We specify their optimisation …. The effect of expected innovation costs and its standard deviation are shown to be distribution dependent. Expected … considered. Transfer costs are found to be far more influential on switching than innovation costs in a symmetric model. Cost …
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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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This document forms a record of a workshop held on 16 January 2006, aimed at examining the mechanisms underlying cross-country convergence of per capita GDP, to what extent they operate in practice, and the implications for policies, including those requiring plausible long-term projections of...
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The analysis on the technological and organizational change in the European industry, and particularlly the Portuguese one, has been studied at CESO I&D since its foundation on 1988. Few time after that, started a development project that started from a previous research project on the same...
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This paper outlines a set of fundamental changes in the global economy that have altered the nature of the innovation … innovation. Against the background of a changing global economy, the purpose of the paper is to make an overview over the role … and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic …
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