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Innovation and Competitive Capacity in Bangladeshs Pharmaceutical Sector

Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

least developed countries. Bangladesh, although a least developed country, is an exception in this regard with thriving … Bangladesh's pharmaceutical sector can gradually evolve to provide low-cost substitutes of important patented drugs to other … and competitiveness of the local pharmaceutical sector in Bangladesh. …

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Employment effect of innovation: microdata evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Waheed, Abdul - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

for two South Asian developing countries: Bangladesh and Pakistan. We further analyze whether this relationship shows …

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Innovation and firm-level productivity: econometric evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Waheed, Abdul - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

The labour productivity impact of innovation of manufacturing firms in Bangladesh and Pakistan, a highly neglected …

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Mobile banking: Innovation for the poor

Ismail, Tashmia; Masinge, Khumbula - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

Access to, and the cost of, mainstream financial services act as a barrier to financial inclusion for many in the developing world. The convergence of banking services with mobile technologies means however that users are able to conduct banking services at any place and at any time through...

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Prospects for the Digital Economy in South Africa: Technology, Policy, People, and Strategies

Adeya, Nyaki; Cogburn, Derrick L. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2002

This chapter explores the on-going development of a global digital economy through a case-study analysis of its impact on and prospects in South Africa. It argues that four factors are key to understanding the impact of the digital economy on a developing country: (1) the level of technology,...

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Information Revolution and Policy Implications for Developing Countries

Cooper, Charles; Gu, Shulin; Alcorta, Ludo; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2000

Discussion paper 2002 is combination of six papers prepared for the International Workshop on The Information Revolution and Economic and Social Exclusion in Developing Countries. These papers are the outcomes of two major themes set for the workshop: "The Developments of Access and Effective...

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China's National Innovation System Approach to Participating in Information Technology: The Innovative Recombination of Technological Capability

Gu, Shulin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 1997

This paper examines the development of the Chinese electronics and information industry (IT) during the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, aimed to explain, from the perspective of endogenous factors, how a less developed economy gets access to the so called information revolution in a...

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Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities for Africa in the Information Economy

Adeya, Nyaki; Cogburn, Derrick L. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2000

Two of the key characteristics defining this historical period are the twin concepts of globalization and the information economy. This transformation - which embodies social, economic, political, technical and cultural processes - is affecting nearly all of the world's people and economies and...

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Towards the societal system of innovation: The case of metropolitan areas in Europe

Turkeli S.; Wintjes R.J.M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

Innovation serves many purposes. In this paper we study new varieties of innovation and innovation policy which address societal challenges in the largest cities in Europe. These metropolitan areas consistently show resounding characteristics in terms of multiplicities of innovation, governance...

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Transition to knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia

Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper discusses the progress in transition to knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia. As for the methodology, this paper uses updated secondary data obtained from different sources. It uses both descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the OECD definition of knowledge-based economy...

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