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The challenge of measuring innovation in emerging economies' firms: A proposal of a new set of indicators on innovation

Marins, Luciana - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

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...

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A Multilevel Analysis of Innovation in Developing Countries

Srholec, Martin - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

Innovation is a multilevel phenomenon. Not only characteristics of firms but also environment within which firms operate matter. Although this has been for long recognized in the literature, a quantitative test that explicitly concerns the hypothesis that framework conditions affect...

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A Technology Acquisition Model: The Role of Learning and Innovation

Wamae, Watu - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

This paper theoretically analyses the dynamics of knowledge accumulation with the aim of understanding how developing … economies can effectively engage in the process of knowledge accumulation. The main focus is on the complementarity between … that the importance of developing an absorptive capacity in the knowledge generation process cannot be over-emphasized. …

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Transition of Governance in a Mature Open Software Source Community: Evidence from the Debian Case

Sadowski, Bert; Sadowski-Rasters, Gaby; Duysters, Geert - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

As flourishing, productive open source software (OSS) communities mature, they have to introduce a variety of governance mechanisms to manage the participation of their members and to coordinate the launch of new releases. In contrast to other modes of governance of OSS communities, the Debian...

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National Systems of Innovations and the Role of Demand. A Cross Country Comparison

Garcia, Abraham - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

system of innovation can be defined by four different dimensions: Social and Human Capital, Knowledge Creation, Innovation …

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Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions

Schoenmakers, Wilfred; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

inventions are to a higher degree based on existing knowledge than non-radical inventions. Also the combination of emergent and … mature knowledge is more important for radical inventions. A further result that follows from our analysis is that radical … inventions are induced by the recombination over more knowledge domains as compared to non-radical inventions. Our research hints …

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Foreign Direct Investment in Times of Global Economic Crisis: Spotlight on New Europe

Filippov, Sergey; Kalotay, Kalman - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

This paper examines the potential impact of the economic crisis, which started in 2008, on the dynamics global foreign direct investment, especially in the new member states of the European Union. The global economic crisis that hit the world in 2008 has forced scholars and policy makers alike...

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Measuring the Returns to R&D

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

We review the econometric literature on measuring the returns to R&D. The theoretical frameworks that have been used are outlined, followed by an extensive discussion of measurement and econometric issues that arise when estimating the models. We then provide a series of tables summarizing the...

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The Growth of Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship in India, 1991-2007

Mani, Sunil - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

takes a critical look at the available quantitative evidence on the growth of knowledge or technologybased entrepreneurship …

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Environmental innovation: Using qualitative models to identify indicators for policy

Kanerva, Minna; Arundel, Anthony; Kemp, Rene - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

Environmental innovation is an essential part of a knowledge based economy, as environmental innovation makes economies … respect, environmental innovation replaces material inputs with knowledge. Environmental innovation should also result in …

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