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, where a non-governmental organization (NGO) rather than a regulator watches over citizens' interests. The innovation … innovation process is considered in terms of a redistribution of profit towards community development, with or without additional … demonstrates that the firm's choice of VA hinges on the tradeoffs between appropriating the full innovation profit and paying a …
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innovation can directly serve to increase profits and augment bargaining power in conflicts if it is supported by a robust …
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knowledge. Learning for innovation is a key ingredient of catching-up processes. The analysis builds on survey data about … pharmaceutical firms in Mexico. Results show that the influence of human resource management is contingent on the knowledge flows and … innovation goals pursued by the firm. Practices such as training-- particularly from external partners; and remuneration for …
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In pursuit of innovation, developing countries play an increasingly relevant role for multinational pharmaceutical … paper critically addresses some of these issues with particular reference to Mexico. The latter case equally illustrates …
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systems of innovation. Limited interaction contributes to explain poor performance in R&D and ultimately, in innovation by … developing countries. But why this is so? Based on evidence from the pharmaceutical industry in Mexico, this paper identifies …
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The study presented in this paper describes preliminary findings on changes in the adoption of different learning mechanisms before and after the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), based on a study of 193 Mexican automotive firms. The results obtained give us...
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within the context of technological innovation. We differentiate among a firm's direct ties, indirect ties and degree of …
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governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …
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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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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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