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Cross-national appropriation of work systems : Japanese firms in the UK
Saka, Ayse - 2003
The diffusion of work processes across countries through foreign direct investment and technological collaborations is an increasingly important practice in today's global economy. Ayse Saka explores this process both by focusing on the role of actors in appropriating different ways of operating...
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Biotechnology, agriculture, and the developing world : the distributional implications of technological change
Swanson, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2002
pt. 1. Setting the scene : the framework for considering biotechnology's impacts -- pt. 2. A case study on terminators : the impacts of biotechnologies on benefit distribution -- pt. 3. Biotechnology and biodiversity : the impacts of biotechnologies on conservation of genetic resource.
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Institutions, innovation and growth : selected economic papers
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851780
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Innovation and institutions : a multidisciplinary review of the study of innovation systems
Waarden, Frans van (contributor); Casper, Steven (contributor) - 2005
Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries make radical innovations but fail to successfully...
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The economic theory of invention and innovation
Link, Albert N. (contributor) - 2008
), 'A Survey of the Theory of Process-Innovations', Economica, XXX (117), February, 13-32 -- Syed Ahmad (1966), 'On the … Theory of Induced Invention', Economic Journal, 76 (302), June, 344-57 -- M.I. Kamien and N.L. Schwartz (1969), 'Induced …. Nordhaus (1969), 'An Economic Theory of Technological Change', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, LIX (2), May …
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Knowledge, technological catch-up and economic growth
Rogers, Mark - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473801
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Innovation in technology alliance networks
Lemmens, Charmianne E. A. V. - 2004
This book studies the dynamics of alliance group formation in technology-based networks. The author attempts to develop the concept of alliance blocks from a social network perspective, and explores the relationship between alliance block membership and innovative performance in a changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473807
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The economics of technology diffusion and energy efficiency
Mulder, Peter - 2005
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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Knowledge spillovers and economic growth : regional growth differentials across Europe
Caniëls, Marjolein C. J. - 2000
. Using evolutionary theory, she advances the argument that knowledge spillovers operate locally. Computer-simulations analyse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473899
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Knowledge spillovers and knowledge management
Karlsson, Charlie (ed.); Flensburg, Per (ed.);  … - 2004
This book reveals the key importance, in terms of international competitiveness, of firms' capability to adapt to, and develop, new technologies. At the same time, the authors argue that the sheer complexity of emerging technologies is such that the knowledge involved in their creation is likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474039