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We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
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The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining … data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …
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an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …
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much of the cumulative innovation literature. When the research abilities of the firms differ, either the high ability firm …
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This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model that explains the timing and the inevitability of an industrial revolution through entrepreneurs' role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave its...
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In the past years biofuels have received increased attention since they were believed to contribute to rural development, energy security and to fight global warming. It became also clear, though, that bioenergy cannot be evaluated independently of the rest of the economy and that national and...
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This paper analyses the nature of knowledge spillovers from research and development (R&D) in the field of liquid crystal display technology by estimating the impact of inventorsÂ’ changing organizational and collaborative affiliations on the probability of citations in US patents filed...
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for different business strategies and innovation inputs connected to product and process innovations. The empirical … analysis uses innovation survey (CIS 2) data at the industry level for 22 manufacturing sectors, broken down in three firm size …
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Since the year 2000, innovation and the path towards a “knowledge-based” economy have become prominent concepts in the … matter, very little is known about the ability to translate innovation into regional growth in territories with geographical … disadvantages. The present paper discusses the intensified emphasis of the European policy approach towards innovation and its …
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investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …
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