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this paper on innovation in genomics and biomedical related biotechnologies is to study the relative impact of the … biotech have changed during the last ten years from a support of research in large firms to a support of SME's creation in …
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This paper analyses the effect of public expenditure on economic growth from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view. Given that the economic literature supplies numerous and conflicting views on the topic, the article offers a framework combining both theories of market failures and...
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The present research relaxes three of the usual assumptions made in the insurance literature. It is assumed that (1) there is a finite number of risks, (2) the risks are not statistically independent and (3) the structure of the market is monopolistic. In this context, the article analyses two...
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Climate change mitigation requires to replace preexisting carbon-intensive capital with different types of cleaner capital. Coal power and inefficient thermal engines may be phased out by gas power and efficient thermal engines or by renewable power and electric vehicles. We derive the optimal...
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The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) constitute an important part of economic growth and dynamics not only for advanced industrialized countries but also for developing economies. Three approaches explaining the behaviors of SMEs' internationalization are proposed in the literature: the...
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rationing. Firstly, our results suggest that SME use leasing all the more the leasing so when they are young, leveraged, less …
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Ce mémoire aura pour but de répondre à la question suivante "Les ERPs open source sont-ils arrivés à la maturité requise pour être déployés sans inquiétude par les entreprises et répondre aux besoins pour lesquels une entreprise met en place un ERP ?". Depuis plusieurs décennies, de...
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This paper explores sustainability in supply network from a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) perspective. The … approaches. Two pilot case studies have been conducted in France exploring how large manufacturing companies engage SME suppliers … in sustainability initiatives and the barriers and drivers for SME suppliers in becoming involved in such intitiatives …
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In this document, we study the industrial district of Jepara, Indonesia. It is specialised in furniture production, for Indonesian consumption as well as for worldwide exports. We summarize the main features of the dynamics of the firms involved in the Jepara industrial complex with a...
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