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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations

Easterly, William; Reshef, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We establish the following stylized facts: (1) Exports are characterized by Big Hits, (2) the Big Hits change from one period to the next, and (3) these changes are not explained by global factors like global commodity prices. These conclusions are robust to excluding extractable products (oil...

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Community as a locus of innovation: co-innovation with users in the creative industries

Parmentier, Guy; Mangematin, Vincent - HAL - 2011

The aim of the paper is to characterize innovation with user communities and to explore managerial implications for … money with innovation. Finally, innovation with user communities may modify the respective identities of firms and …

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Disassembly and reassembly on digital technology and creative industries

Mangematin, Vincent; Sapsed, Jonathan; Schüßler, Elke - HAL - 2013

-in effects on the one hand, and the possibilities for transformation and innovation on the other is only gained by analyzing …

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The Evolution of the French Public Policy to Promote Biotech Innovation : The Case of Genomics

Branciard, Anne; Mangematin, Vincent - HAL - 2001

this paper on innovation in genomics and biomedical related biotechnologies is to study the relative impact of the …

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Orchestrating innovation with user communities in the creative industries

Parmentier, G.; Mangematin, Vincent - HAL - 2014

The digital creative industries exemplify innovation processes in which user communities are highly involved in product … role of user communities in such co-innovation processes via four case studies of interrelations between firms and their … communities. The digitization and virtualization of firm/community interactions are changing how boundaries are defined and how co-innovation …

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Rethinking business models for innovation

Chanal, Valérie; Akselsen, Sigmund; Blanco, Sylvie; … - HAL - 2011

One of the major challenges confronted by those in charge of technological innovation involves anticipating the value … potential market. Today, in many industrial sectors, the innovation boundaries have moved towards projects that are more and … build sustainable competitive advantages. The notion of Business Models, when applied to innovation, enables us to describe …

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Disassembly and reassembly on digital technology and creative industries

Mangematin, Vincent; Sapsed, Jonathan; Schüßler, Elke - HAL - 2014

-in effects on the one hand, and the possibilities for transformation and innovation on the other is only gained by analyzing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026101

Disassembly and reassembly on digital technology and creative industries

Mangematin, Vincent; Sapsed, Jonathan; Schüßler, Elke - HAL - 2013

-in effects on the one hand, and the possibilities for transformation and innovation on the other is only gained by analyzing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746982

Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

Comin, Diego; Easterly, William; Gong, Erick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Although our strongest results are for...

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Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry

Easterly, William; Satyanath, Shanker; Berger, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Do superpower interventions to install and prop up political leaders in other countries subsequently result in more or less democracy, and does this effect vary depending on whether the intervening superpower is democratic or authoritarian? While democracy may be expected to decline...

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