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arguable made the transition to an entrepreneurial economy in which innovation, creativity and high value added in early stage …
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Many of the new member states as well as candidate and accession countries of the EU are confident that membership will result in substantially increased inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in manufacturing. This paper discusses the policy issues and challenges that cohesion and accession...
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The emergence of a globalised knowledge economy, and the contemporary views of innovation capacity that this trend … activities that help wire up innovation systems, linking R&D to other activities and actors in society. The paper outlines four … agricultural innovation priorities and guiding principles for development assistance that could help strengthen national and global …
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Agrifood stakeholders across the world are under ever-increasing pressure with globalization and new market demands … innovation response capacity. This paper aims to present what "innovation response capacity" entails, especially for natural … from agricultural innovation capacity and the innovation systems framework. This is provided through case study research …
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This paper surveys what we know about the internationalization of business R&D spending. I examine three specific questions about the global changes in R&D activity: First, what is the evidence that R&D is becoming more internationalized (more footloose)? Second, what are the factors that...
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for globalization. A new and "outward-looking" Lisbon strategy would focus on three key areas: international trade in …
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Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …
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We examine the impact of internal and external R&D on labor productivity in a 6-year panel of Dutch manufacturing firms. We apply a dynamic linear panel data model that allows for decreasing or increasing returns to scale in internal and external R&D and for economies of scope. We find...
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innovation output and economic growth for regions of the European Union from 1990-2002. Using several measures of social capital … and innovation, and the European Union’s Objective 1, 2 and 5b figures for EU regional support, the estimates suggest that …
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the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing … fail to produce any significant impact, and only foreign ownership, ISO certification and high education of the management …
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