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Firm Size, Technological Capabilities and Market-Oriented Policies in Mauritius

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2001

Mauritius is an outlier in Sub-Saharan Africa for its impressive manufactured export performance based on garments since the adoption of market-oriented policies in the early 1980s. Little, however, is known about the role played by internal technological factors on the exporting behaviour of...

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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...

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The impact of innovation activities on productivity and firm growth: evidence from Brazil

Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

activities on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and its subsequent effect on firm growth, measured by sales. Controlling for … size and age of the firms, productivity levels and productivity growth of firms over time are found to be key drivers of … firm size adjustments. The activities leading to higher productivity levels are organizational change, cooperation with …

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ICT Externalities: Evidence from cross country data

Meijers, Huub - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

Technologies (ICT) on economic growth and productivity at an aggregate level. It focuses on possible network effects and spillovers … effects into account, the paper shows that the impact of ICT on productivity is almost twice as high as compared to a model …

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Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor

Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

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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Policy Instruments for Stimulating R&D in the Enterprise Sector: The Contrasting Experiences of Two MNC Dominated Economies from Southeast Asia

Mani, Sunil - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2000

The Paper undertakes a detailed survey of the various policy instruments and institutions, which two seemingly similar economies have implemented to increase R&D investments by their respective private sector enterprises. The two economies are Singapore and Malaysia, which have both shown rather...

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Industrialization, Liberalization and Two Way Flows of Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of India

Kumar, Nagesh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 1995

This paper analyses the evolution of India's FDI position during the post-independence period in comparison with government policy and levels of industrialization and development. Since independence, India has pursued a strategy of industrialization with active governmental intervention....

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Foreign Ownership, Technological Capabilities and Exports: Evidence from 205 Clothing Firms in Sri Lanka

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise of clothing production for export, apparently mainly driven by foreign firms, is regarded as a major outcome of the reforms. This paper seeks to examine a range of factors...

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The Spatial Hierarchy of Technological Change and Economic Development in Europe

Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

This paper discusses the possibility of a spatial hierarchy of innovation and growth dynamics in Europe. A spatial hierarchy is understood as a geographical clustering of regions, where important differences exist in terms of innovation and growth dynamics between the clusters. The literature on...

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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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