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This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate inIndian states has affected the pattern of manufacturing growthin the period 1958-92. We show that states which ammendedthe Industrial Disputes Act in a pro-worker direction experiencedlowered output, employment, investment and...
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Economic institutions encompassing increasingly sophisticated concepts of risk-sharing and liability flourished in Europe since the High Middle Ages. These innovations occurred in an environment of fragmented local jurisdictions, not within the framework of the territorial state. In this short...
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Most economic historians would surely endorse Paul Romer's view expressed above that technological progress lies at the heart of long run economic growth. Long ago Kuznets identified the epoch of 'modern economic growth' as one where growth came to be driven by scientific and technological...
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There is no doubt that innovation is nowadays the main determinant ofeconomic growth and that the human resource is as … labourmarket rigidities in the explanation of cross-countries differences in innovation andgrowth performances, and calls for … of a moregeneral policy consensus on competitive markets as the engine of innovation and onmonopolistic distortions as …
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level of competition in an industry and the level of innovation inthat industry. Thus, when consolidation changes the level … of competition in an industry wemight expect this to have implications for the level of innovation in that industry. The … industry innovation through funding R&D by industry and in itsown research facilities. We present data on changes to the …
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and form of intellectualcompetition, innovation and coordination in the public sciences. However, the nature …
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The literature on Regional Systems of Innovation (RSI) has produced an extensivebody of research in recent years and … institutional, systemic andevolutionary approaches to innovation and learning.... …
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articulated in relationto the dynamics of medical innovation and enriched by an empirical study on the long-termevolution of …
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Different ways of competing in markets came to dominate particular sectors, regions and national market economies in the postwar period as a result of variations in market conditions, technological regimes and institutional contexts. These varied in terms of production volumes, basis of...
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seen as an attractive and feasible instrument for furthering the goals of innovation policy. However, public procurement is … innovation draws upon a limited set of examples which are not representative of the bulk of public purchasing and tend to … the nature of innovations and in the range of ways that procurement can impact upon innovation. A one-size-fits-all model …
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