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Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...
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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 …
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In this paper, we examine how transnational corruption affects host country firms' innovation behaviour and performance … products and services. Using a simultaneousequations recursive model and controlling for various innovation determinants, we … also show that the reduction in innovation effort ultimately also hurts the host country's long-term ability to …
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
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, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and …We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …
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productivity. This paper addresses the Porter Hypothesis within a structural approach that allows us to test what is known in the … literature as the "weak" and the "strong" version of the Porter hypothesis. Our "Green Innovation" model includes three types of … eco investments and non-eco R&D to explain differences in the incidence of innovation. Besides product and process …
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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 … effects of entrepreneurship in general and growth-oriented entrepreneurship in particular. We present empirical tests of the …
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, as in labor market matching models. Deriving a novel Entrepreneurship-Beveridge curve, we show that a successful start … possible applications of this matching approach to formalize the economics of entrepreneurship. …
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agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …
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