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Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …
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. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … more activity - a pattern closely resembling the R&D support path. R&D and innovation are concentrated in few high …-tech countries - such as the U.S. or Germany. Large CSP potential is not a sufficient condition for innovation, only developed …
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This article contributes to the literature on innovation and development by identifying the determinants of innovation … determinants of innovation to be different for industrialized and developing countries. This is supported by endogeneity tests …
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The article argues that IT continues to have strategic relevance for companies because it en-ables innovation. A … conceptual link between the adoption of IT and innovation is established. This conceptual link allows a market-based, economic … explanation for variations in IT payoffs among firms: The successful adoption of new IT leads to innovation. Depending on the be …
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Innovation is at the basis of economic development and as such, it is instrumental for developing countries. We review … the literature on innovation from the perspectives of four select branches of economics to build a conceptual framework of … innovation applicable to developing countries. The conceptual framework includes insights from the surveyed literature and …
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in renewable electricity generation as well as increasing renewable energy innovation and foreign knowledge accumulation … innovation effects steaming from both importing countries and China. We use a panel dataset representing annual bilateral trade … evidence that bilateral knowledge transfer and indigenous innovation affect exports. …
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and R&D support measures, and we survey the industrial actors they can encourage to pursue innovation. While deployment … innovation incentives, and R&D support has been comparatively weak. The paper concludes with a discussion of the opportunities …
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European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to "natural differences" as some others did after them in the 19th or 20th centuries. Drawing from recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social sciences and in...
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This paper argues against a natural resource curse for human development. We find evidence that changes in human development from 1970 to 2005, proxied by changes in the Human Development Index, are positively and significantly correlated with natural resource abundance. While our results are...
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As often argued, a negative perception of immigration, or even emigration, prevails public opinions and governments in most countries. It is argued that caused by economic hardship or political hardship or political unrest in countries of origin, it would threaten well-being and identity in...
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