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The economics of intangible investment
Webster, Elizabeth - 1999
The amount of physical matter in the world is fixed and improvements to people's material circumstances are only created by their ability to reconfigure this matter. What distinguishes labour, and subsequently what allows for differing increments of value, are our capabilities, skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473855
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Knowledge externalities, innovation clusters and regional development
Suriñach, Jordi (contributor); Moreno, Rosina (contributor) - 2007
pt. 1. Regional innovation systems, agglomeration economies and knowledge spillovers : theoretical approaches -- pt. 2. Regional innovation systems, agglomeration economies and knowledge spillovers : empirical studies -- pt. 3. Regional economic growth and knowledge.
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Handbook of innovation systems and developing countries : building domestic capabilities in a global setting
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke (contributor) - 2009
This Handbook is the first attempt to adapt the IS approach to developing countries from a theoretical and empirical viewpoint. The Handbook brings eminent scholars in economics, innovation and development studies together with promising young researchers to review the literature and push...
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Innovation, economic growth and the firm : theory and evidence of industrial dynamics
Salies, Evens (contributor); Gaffard, Jean-Luc (contributor) - 2010
This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall's view on the management of innovation, investigate the decision of firms to venture into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851132
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Competitiveness, FDI and technological activity in East Asia
Lall, Sanjaya (contributor); Urata, Shu§jiro (contributor) - 2003
This book addresses this imbalance with new country studies on the interaction between foreign direct investment (FDI …1. Introduction and overview / Sanjaya Lall and Shujiro Urata -- 2. Foreign direct investment, technology development … comparison / Hiroki Kawai and Shujiro Urata -- 4. Building technological capabilities with or without inward direct investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852338
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Industrial innovation and firm performance : the impact of scientific knowledge on multinational corporations
Kafouros, Mario I. - 2008
Kafouros theoretically and empirically examines the impacts of innovation and scientific knowledge on the productivity …'s productivity, and how multinationals build on external inventions, ideas and knowledge. The results confirm that not all firms can … innovation and firm productivity performance, the book also investigates a number of additional issues including the costs of R …
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The economics of power, knowledge, and time
Javary, Michèle - 2002
This book examines the significance of technological, organisational and institutional change as crucial factors in the analysis of the turnover time of capital. It also studies the related set of theoretical questions that concern the relationship between power, knowledge and time, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474123
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The dynamics of knowledge externalities : localized technological change in Italy
Antonelli, Cristiano - 2011
important contributions. Firstly, it elaborates the hypothesis that total factor productivity growth stems from pecuniary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851040
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The future of economic growth : as new becomes old
Boyer, Robert - 2004
In this book, Robert Boyer follows the origins, course and collapse of the "new economy" and proposes a new interpretation of US dynamism during the 1990s. He argues that the diffusion of information and communication technologies is only part of a story that also requires understanding of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851599
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Knowledge, inequality, and growth in the new economy
Nahuis, Richard - 2003
of wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the relatively low productivity growth experienced … technological revolution, describe why this does not necessarily result in high productivity growth and outline the best methods to … measure productivity in the new economy. This exhaustive exploration of productivity growth and wage inequality between high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474134