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European integration -- 5. Schumpeter's theory of economic development revisited -- 6. Skunk works : a sign of failure, a sign …. Culture's role in entrepreneurship : self-employment out of dissatisfaction -- 9. Towards cooperation between European start …
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Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm capabilities - the central argument of the book is that the...
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disaster and to end mass unemployment by accelerating and redirecting world economic growth. This major volume brings together … microelectronics and biotechnology, which is now transforming the world economy, and sets it in the context of long term fluctuations … full employment are not necessarily opposed. On the contrary, as this volume demonstrates, what is required to return to …
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Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not...
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During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today - information and communication technology (ICT) - does...
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between technological change and employment in all its dimensions, focusing on contemporary economies in Europe. The authors … discuss patterns of growth, and the type of employment that countries might expect to be created following the introduction of …
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1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor …
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Written by the scholar who, together with Chris Freeman, first introduced the concept of the innovation system, this book brings the literature an important step forward. Based upon extraordinarily rich empirical material, it shows how and why competence building and innovation are crucial for...
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this book, Kurt Kratena studies the employment effects of revenue neutral tax shifts from labour to energy, and measures … equilibrium model only finds employment double dividend effects. The book also highlights the potentially positive economic … appraisal of the general double dividend question combined with an innovative analysis of the employment double dividend effect …
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The first book in this important new series, under the general editorship of Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Institutions, Innovation and Growth assembles a stellar cast of international contributors. Leading economists join the debate on innovation and economic growth, focussing on a broad...
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