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Innovation and Leapfrogging in the Chinese Automobile Industry: Examples from Geely, BYD and Shifeng

Wang, Hua; Kimble, Chris - HAL - 2013

History provides numerous examples of incumbent market leaders being leapfrogged by newcomers that have exploited the opportunities offered by new technologies. In light of the growing number of ecological threats linked to the use of the internal combustion engine, can Chinese auto...

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Using panel unit root tests to evaluate the income convergence hypothesis in middle East and North Africa countries

Guetat, Imène; Serranito, Francisco - HAL - 2005

This article aims at testing the convergence hypothesis in MENA region using new tests of a unit root in panel data. Quah (1994, 1998), Evans & Karras (1996) and Bertrand & Jones (1996) recommend this technique to evaluate the income convergence hypothesis. According to them it avoids...

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How can a cluster policy enhance entrepreneurship? Evidence from the German 'BioRegio' case

Champenois, Claire - HAL - 2012

I investigate the mechanisms through which a cluster policy can enhance entrepreneurship defined as new venture creation. The paper is based on the study of a cluster policy ('BioRegio') that strongly simulated new firm creation in biotechnology in Germany after 1996. The process induced by...

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Interrelationships between Health, Environment Quality and Economic Activity: What Consequences for Economic Convergence

Drabo, Alassane - HAL - 2011

This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables and economic development, and the consequences of this relationship on economic convergence for a large sample of rich and poor countries. While in economic literature income and environment are seen to have an...

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Assessing and ordering investments in polluting fossil-fueled and zero-carbon capital

Lecuyer, Oskar; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - HAL - 2013

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 : challenge to technology policy within regions

Fadairo, Muriel; Massard, Nadine - HAL - 2009

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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From Marshallian District to Local Productive Systems: The Polish Case

Despiney, Barbara - HAL - 2009

The chapter concentrates on the positive development dynamics of "industrial districts" based on the network of Small an Medium-Sized firms in Poland.The crux of the matter is to establish whether or not industrial districts constitute a model for the regenaration of local and regional economies...

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Regional development, career choice and territorialization of the training supply: Elements of problematisation.

Champollion, Pierre - HAL - 2007

Due to the decentralization laws of 1982-1983, the secondary general and professional education and training supply progressively and partly became "regional". In France, "Region" refers to a political and administrative federative space of many different territories, which are linked to the...

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Smart regions. Two cases of crowdsourcing for regional development

Roth, Steffen; Kaivo-Oja, Jari; Hirschmann, Thomas - HAL - 2013

Despite a certified need for stronger ties between regional entrepreneurial ecosystems and larger networks, and despite an emerging discourse on beneficial interlinks between crowdsourcing and urban development, the relationship between crowdsourcing and regional development is underexplored....

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Regional development: contribution of evolutionary biology

Vaskova, Lucie - HAL - 2004

This paper tries to set out a potential of application of some evolutionary biology concepts to the issue of regional development. The objective is to show that employment of these concepts or at least inspiration by them may enrich some theories of regional development and enhance the...

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