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A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the economics. A...
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This paper aims to present the reality of the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC) (Ilhéus / Brazil) and the Universidade de La Rochelle (ULR) (France) in relation to the activities of innovation management, intellectual property (IP) and technology transfer (TT) performed at each...
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China is the largest solar photovoltaic cell producer in the world, with more than one third of worldwide production in 2008, exporting more than 95 percent of what it produces. The purpose of this paper is to understand the drivers of this success and its limits, with a particular emphasis on...
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international trade and foreign direct investment also hinder the diffusion of climate-friendly technologies. Surprisingly, local …
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public research and industry is carried by the larger firms, just as it was in the early stages of the microelectronics …
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The technology transfer process between a public laboratory and a company has been the subject of many publications and has been widely discussed in economic theory. This paper highlights several newly identified asymmetries occurring between the different agents taking part in the process,...
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Analyzing the evolution of the innovation models, from the linear process (“concept” for Schumpeter, “R&D push” for Abernathy, Utterback, “co-innovation” for Shapiro), integrated and systemic process (“coordination process” for Hardy, Iansiti, Chen, “innovative management”...
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(international) eco-industry (whose profits are shared among national and foreign suppliers). The second-best emissions tax is shown … to decrease as the exogenous share of imported technology increases. When the domestic polluting industry is imperfectly … competitive, this tax is always lower than the marginal damage. In contrast, when the polluting industry is perfectly competitive …
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The aim of our paper is to empirically estimate the direction and magnitude of technological spillovers from FDI using a plant level dataset of Romanian firms for the period 1999-2007. We use the Levinsohn Petrin (2003) methodology in order to estimate total factor productivity and compute...
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drop in investment and in the current account, in line with empirical evidence, only if the traded sector is more capital …
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