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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies
Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005
2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555995
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Path dependence, its critics and the quest for ‘historical economics’
David, Paul A. - EconWPA - 2005
The concept of path dependence refers to a property of contingent, non- reversible dynamical processes, including a wide array of biological and social processes that can properly be described as 'evolutionary.' To dispell existing confusions in the literature, and clarify the meaning and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076567
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Accession Games: A Dynamic Per-Member Partition Function Aapproach
Kóczy, László Á. - EconWPA - 2001
In this paper we define and solve the accession game, a dynamic game containing a union and a set of applicants with a per-member partition function satisfying the conditions of Yi [17] to include negative externalities. The solution gives an equilibrium partition of the players as well as,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118555
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THE TOWER OF BABEL? THE INNOVATION SYSTEM APPROACH VERSUS MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS.
Hers, Johannes; Nahuis, Niek - EconWPA - 2004
The Innovation systems (IS) approach and the system failures it identifies, play an important role in the design and … legitimization of innovation policy. This paper analyses the usefulness of this concept. We conclude that the IS-approach can be … useful to visualize the complexity of the innovation processes. However, for policy design this approach is less suited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126082
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Integrating Competition Policy and Innovation Policy: The Case of R&D Cooperation
Graevenitz, Georg von - EconWPA - 2005
This paper considers the integration of competition policy and innovation policy in the context of R&D cooperation. An …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412898
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Technological Developments and their Effects on World Trade: Any Implications for Governments?
Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2001
This paper summarizes new developments in world trade, technological changes worldwide and their implications for recent theoretical studies in economics. After defining the economic globalization and schematizing its relations with international trade, economic growth and technological change,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556465
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Absorptive Capacity – One Size Fits All? A Firm-level Analysis of Absorptive Capacity for Different Kinds of Knowledge
Schmidt, Tobias - EconWPA - 2005
from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412880
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Industrial Sector Growth Accounting of Some Indian States and Union Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar; Ahmed, Shahid - EconWPA - 2005
We work out technical efficiency levels of the Indian States and Union Territories using Data Envelopment Analysis from 1980-81 to 1997-98. We decompose net value added per worker growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the overall production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125622
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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004
We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years .Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408241
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Banking on Change: Information systems and technologies in UK High Street Banking, 1919-1979
BÁTIZ-LAZO, Bernardo; WARDLEY, Peter - EconWPA - 2005
This paper explores the automation of the supply of financial services on the British High Street. Its aim is to provide an historical perspective to highlight the longevity of organisational change in the financial sector and to emphasise its remarkable continuity: UK clearing banks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408384