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Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions
Schoenmakers, Wilfred; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856298
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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 Research … - 2011
This paper reflects on the experience of the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in Asia. It reconfirms much of what has 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856317
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Technological spillovers from multinational presence - Towards a conceptual framework
Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
This paper undertakes a critical review of existing spillover analyses and proposes a unique analytical framework for examining technological spillovers in a manufacturing industry setting. The proposed framework overlaps three different literature strands; cluster and network dynamics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856329
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Research, higher education and innovation: redesigning multi-level governance within Europe in a period of crisis
Ritzen, Jo; Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
In this paper we present a vision for the course Europe should take in its research and higher education policies in order to fully live up to the expectations of its citizens to provide a safe, comfortable, affluent and sustainable environment in this period of considerable financial restraint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856336
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Optimal multi-phase transition paths toward a global green economy
David, Paul; Van Zon, Adriaan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Economic growth thus far has been closely linked to the bulk conversion of energy stored in carbon based fuels (wood, coal, oil, natural gas) into useful work. Burning such fuels gives rise to CO2-emissions. These emissions, together with other greenhouse gasses (GHG's) like methane, are now...
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Running The Marathon
Cowan, William; Cowan, Robin; Llerena, Patrick - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Over the twentieth century universities in the industrialized world have evolved from being "universities of culture" to "universities of innovation." Policy makers and universities themselves see that one of their major roles is supporting industrial innovation and thus economic growth. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856346
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Innovativity: A comparison across seven European countries
Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856353
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Preparing for the Next, Very Long Crisis: Towards a ‘Cool’ Science and Technology Policy Agenda For a Globally Warming Economy
David, Paul A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
adaptations in long-standing institutional and regulatory readjustments that can render those investments in knowledge more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856364
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User innovation and the market
Gault, Fred - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
knowledge gained to others. A modest proposal is made for a change to the definition which also has implications for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856383
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Self-organization of knowledge economies
Lafond, Francois - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
Suppose that homogenous agents fully consume their time to invent new ideas and learn ideas from their friends. If the social network is complete and agents pick friends and ideas of friends uniformly at random, the distribution of ideas’ popularity is an extension of the Yule-Simon...
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