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With a vast and diverse SME sector India’s industrialization owes much to the technological dynamism of enterprises. Various institutional interventions have been made to promote innovativeness in the sector, albeit, following economic reforms, it appears that the SME sector has not been...
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Given the decline in growth momentum in the manufacturing sector in many OECD countries, the role of knowledge …-based capital has emerged as a key driver for sustained growth. While empirical studies on estimating knowledge spillovers have …. This paper therefore assesses the effect of spillovers in driving per capita output growth taking into account the role of …
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A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agencies have forgotten pregnant women. Given the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal...
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The relationship between investment in R&D and productivity growth have been well documented in the literature. So far … paper finds China’s economic growth mainly depends on capital input and that the impact of R&D capital on China’s growth is …
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economic growth. To accomplish this objective, we introduce trade secret and information leakage into a standard quality …-ladder growth model and study the long-run implications of improving the privacy of firms' data. We find that reducing the set of …
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new drugs more suited to the needs of India and other developing countries? Can the innovation capabilities be utilized …
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The paper offers some reflections on technological capability building in the context of low-income developing countries. The issue is of particular concern, especially in an economic climate of liberalisation hostile to direct state intervention, at a time when the less developed countries are...
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its potential, whether measured by the system’s inputs, outputs, or by the contribution of innovation to economic growth … characterised by slow economic growth. Preliminary GDP data for 2013 indicates a slight pick-up in growth in the second half of the … year. Growth was driven by net exports and a surge in public expenditure, whereas household consumption contracted. Annual …
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Innovation is a  polymorph, complex and multifaceted phenomenon. The changing context of Economic issues gives … innovation a central role in the performance of Tunisian firms. In recent years, Tunisia's economy has become more complex and … potential for innovation. The transition from a Fordis economy type to a knowledge-based economy requires the generalization of …
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with external networks together enhance the probability that firms engage in product and process innovation. Following … data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2006-08. In order to control for potential endogeneity of the external …-owned firms which engage in backward networking for product and forward networking for process innovation while also undertaking R …
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