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Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
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The traditional indicators on innovation rely on the linear assumption that research leads to development, centring on … the measurement of inputs and outputs. Based on the traditional innovation indicators, recent studies focused on the … industrial innovation process at Latin America state that nowadays Latin American firms display a passive role at world …
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relationship with propensity. The analysis is based on innovation survey data on manufacturing firms from Jiangsu province of China …
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presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …
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The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti … difficult to predict the impact of patenting on biomedical innovation in developing and least developed countries. This paper … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in "technology follower" developing …
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innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …
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innovation framework. …
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to present what "innovation response capacity" entails, especially for natural resourcebased industries in a developing … country context. It will also provide an analytical framework that draws elements from agricultural innovation capacity and … the innovation systems framework. This is provided through case study research conducted in Kenya by exploring two …
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Innovation is a source of increasing productivity, but it is also a source of stress. Psychological research shows that … different rates of innovation on productivity. The model shows among other things that the existence and nature of relationships … of people determine the extent to which a certain rate of innovation effectively results in increasing productivity. In …
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has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve … - remains the same. Hence a focus on endogenous innovation policy is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. …
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