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The Portuguese producers of Molds are in its majority of small or medium dimension, competing in highly competitive international markets and using processes, which incorporate new technologies. The present study aims to identify the strategic quadrants for developing the Portuguese Molds...
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proposed by Wijnholds and Kapteyn, as well as a discussion of costs of reserves’ holding. It therefore provides empirical proof …
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and lowering the costs of insolvency should it occur. In particular it considers whether a lex specialis for dealing with …
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This paper examines the role and determinants of collateral in emerging markets compared to mature ones. Analyzing a data set of 560 credit files of Thai commercial banks, we find that both the incidence and degree of collateralization are higher there than in developed markets. Thai banks use...
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firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and … innovation height matters. We also find evidence that TFP growth is better represented by an upward shift of the production …
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play a role in the contemporaneous evolution of innovation in a broad cross section of countries today. Our results …, while 'home grown' innovation is more sensitive to internal structural and institutional factors. …
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La protection juridique des méthodes commerciales liées à Internet est très controversée. Est-il opportun de protéger des biens immatériels ou des idées ? N'est-ce pas menacer durablement le développement de la "nouvelle économie" ? N'est-ce pas brider l'activité inventive et...
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An analytical innovation enhances microeconomics, enabling it to answer all questions of macroeconomics. It combines … intermediation (entrepreneurship, transaction costs, institutions), all of them integrated. It is easier done than said with the …
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This paper presents the stylized facts of open source software innovation and provides empirical evidence on the impact … formal model that captures the innovation impact of OSS entry by examining a change in market structure from monopoly to …
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. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …
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