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Breaking the Fence: Patent Rights and Biomedical Innovation in 'Technology Followers'
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150790
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Information and intellectual property: The global challenges
Aiyer Ghosh, Rishab; Soete, Luc - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150872
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Innovation and diffusion of clean/green technology: Can patent commons help?
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148898
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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia
Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323002
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Incubators as Tools for Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries
Akcomak, Semih - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
staff. Moreover, incubators reflect the institutional set-up, creativity, and policy innovativeness in a society. Therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008629989
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Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Stam, Erik; Stel, Andre van - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range of countries. An important element of this paper is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008629999
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New firm creation and failure: A matching approach
Gries, Thomas; Jungblut, Stefan; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012
We propose that the rate of creation and failure of new firm start-ups can be modelled as a search and matching process, as in labor market matching models. Deriving a novel Entrepreneurship-Beveridge curve, we show that a successful start-up depends on the efficiency with which entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653060
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"Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken": Entrepreneurship and the happiness of nations
Naudé, Wim; Amoros, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012
We know that entrepreneurs - at least those driven by opportunities - can contribute to economic growth, productivity improvements and competitiveness in national economies.. But do they contribute to happiness on the country level? In other words, does the happiness of nations depend on its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653061
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Alliance-based Network View on Chinese Firms' Catching-up: Case Study of Huawei Technologies Co.Ltd
Zhang, Ying - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
firm's innovation performance as well. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531435
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Small Islands, New Technologies and Globalization: A Case of ICT adoption by SMEs in Mauritius
Lal, Kaushalesh; Peedoly, Aveeraj Sharma - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
This paper sets out to locate Mauritian SMEs in the present context of global competition and more particularly to identify the extent to which they have adopted ICTs as a tool to meet the challenges which they now face. The essence of the argument that comes to the fore is that despite having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150753