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2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …
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innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …
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the definite path towards becoming one in the foreseeable future. A careful examination of their innovation policies shows … industry. Malaysia, on the contrary, has very similar fiscal instruments for encouraging innovation. But it suffers from a …
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possible dimensions of the innovation system are considered, namely the (a) policies with respect to the supply of technically … innovation; and (d) promotion of technology-based ventures through venture capital funds. The country suffers from a chronic …
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significant number of research grants have been made available to its innovation system comprising the higher education sector … real weaknesses of the innovation system shows that the country suffers from a severe shortage of scientists and engineers … migration abroad. Without addressing this basic lacuna in its innovation system, the country has put in place three sizeable …
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Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
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The challenges presented to the Korean Innovation System require several fundamental and structural changes. Some are … more directly related to particular innovation actors and activities; but some are, directly and indirectly, related to the … much wider context of the economic system as a whole. The role of the National Innovation System (NIS) in a knowledge based …
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Family businesses carry the weight of economic wealth creation in most economies. In the U.S. alone, family businesses account for 80 to 90 percent of the 18-million business enterprises in the United States, and 50 percent of the employment and GNP. In many ways, the family business is...
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This paper assesses the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their impact on the economic performance of small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) of three East African countries: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Findings of the paper suggest that the diffusion of ICT among...
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