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and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic … multinationals contribute to innovation, technology and knowledge dispersion. The distribution of knowledge investments is uneven …This paper outlines a set of fundamental changes in the global economy that have altered the nature of the innovation …
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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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Human capital is observed to be an important contributor to growth but unevenly distributed geographically. While there is consensus on the importance of human capital to economic development, debate takes shape around two central issues. First, there is the question of how best to measure human...
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experimental and dynamic microeconomic model useful for studying the patent system as a trade system, where patented technology is …, intermediary and innovation activities using a linear contract on patents (fixed fee plus royalty on revenues). A trader is … introduced together with inventor and innovator agents in order to multiply the value (use) of the technology. Three mechanism …
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This paper examines how technology specialization, measured by citations-weighted patents, affects trade flows. The … paper analyzes (i) the relationship between technology specialization and export specialization across regions and (ii) how … the technology specialization of origin and destination affect the size and structure of link-specific export flows. We …
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This paper analyzes the influences of human capital and technology transfers from R&D activities on regional export … of technology transfers from R&D activities to the geographical distribution of R&D activities and the observed patterns … in production of high quality goods in Swedish regions. The empirical analysis also provides evidences of technology …
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The relationships between talent, technology and regional development have been widely examined in the advanced … examine the relationships between talent, technology and regional economic performance in China, and to isolate the effects of … of talent and technology and between the distribution of talent and regional economic performance in China to be weak. We …
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, computer technology and work organization, especially text and image processing in the graphic industries, that was named … technological change. Corporations developing technology usually pursued increased efficiency in production, while the labour … be seen as an attempt to establish an innovation system in computer system development where these kind of different …
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This paper is devoted to the study of municipal diversity in retail and durables. Specifically, it analyzes how a region’s relative market-accessibility in a system (or hierarchy) of municipalities affects the extent of diversity. In the theoretical part of the paper a simple modelmunicipal...
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The importance of capital structure is explored by comparing existing archetypes of financial systems through a new methodological application. Differences in firms’ cost of capital show that capital structure is relevant in R&D and other investment decisions. The conclusions are that 1) there...
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