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We analyze patterns and determinants of technology alliance formation with partner firms from emerging economies, with … form technology alliances with partners based in emerging economies and vice versa (interrelation). We find that both …
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The need for long-term care (LTC) is projected to increase in all European countries due to the ageing of the population. The number of people aged 65 and older will double in EU-15 countries by 2050 under a pure ageing scenario and will increase by more than 30 per cent under the constant...
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infinite population it converges to the Yule-Simon distribution. The power law is steeper when innovation is high. Diffusion …
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investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … development and diffusion of green technologies. More generally, the paper sheds light on the performance of hybrid forms of …
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on percolation dynamics. The model combines the concept of increasing returns to adoption with information diffusion … particular product technology. In the explorative stage many different designs are developed, in the development stage products … product lifecycle as an outcome of a single elementary process. The model also replicates the S-shaped diffusion curve and the …
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The distribution of citations received by scientific publications can be approximated by a power law, a finding that has been explained by “cumulative advantage”. This paper argues that socially embedded learning is a plausible mechanism behind this cumulative advantage. A model assuming...
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This paper studies the impact of interaction topologies on individual and aggregate behavior in environments with social interactions. We study social interaction games of an infnitely large population with local and global externalities. Local externalities are limited within agents'...
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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....
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perspectives CDM has been alleged as a new channel of transfer and diffusion of climate friendly technologies (CFT) in developing … countries. However we are evidencing that the majority of the CDM projects deploy local sources of technology, which challenges … the North- South technology transfer paradigm established under the sustainable development agenda of the KP. This paper …
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The paper uses data from a recent survey on Brazilian firms to investigate the role of technology in the … these days, and their technology-seeking purpose is a strong driver for the internationalization, as firms are searching for … decisions to invest in developed destinations. We found out that technology is an asset used as a competitive resource, and that …
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