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Does the internet generate economic growth, international trade, or both?
Meijers, Huub - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Recent cross country panel data studies find a positive impact of internet use on economic growth and a positive impact … of internet use on trade. The present study challenges the first finding by showing that internet use does not explain … highly correlated with internet use and the findings in the literature that internet use causes trade is confirmed here …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856408
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Small Islands, New Technologies and Globalization: A Case of ICT adoption by SMEs in Mauritius
Lal, Kaushalesh; Peedoly, Aveeraj Sharma - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
This paper sets out to locate Mauritian SMEs in the present context of global competition and more particularly to identify the extent to which they have adopted ICTs as a tool to meet the challenges which they now face. The essence of the argument that comes to the fore is that despite having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712005
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Economic Adversity and Entrepreneurship-led Growth - Lessons from the Indian Software Sector
Athreye, Suma - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
It is commonly believed that the business environment in developing countries does not allow productive technology-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, we draw on the experience of Indian software firms where entrepreneurial growth has belied these predictions. This paper argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856323
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How do ICT firms in Turkey manage innovation? : diversity in expertise versus diversity in markets
Akçomak S.; Akdeve E.; Fındık D. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
This paper provides a novel taxonomy of firms based on specialization versus diversification in production and markets. Firms may choose to specialize on few production activities or alternatively may build expertise in many activities. There is an accompanying decision when firms sell their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266649
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Business and financial method patents, innovation, and policy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
Two court decisions in the 1990s are widely viewed as having opened the door to a flood of business method and financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712047
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Beyond the emission market: Kyoto and the international expansion of waste management firms
Costa, Ionara; Doranova, Asel; Eenhoorn, Geert-Jan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This paper analyses the participation of firms without GHG emission liabilities as technology providers in CDM and JI projects, the flexibility mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol. It argues that the motivations for those firms to engaging in CDM and JI projects is based on market stimuli beyond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712311
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A Brief History of Mobile Telecommunication in Europe
Dunnewijk, Theo; Hultén, Staffan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
Since the introduction of mobile telephony in the early fifties in Europe, US and Japan the demand for this service exploded. It seems that the latent demand for mobile telecommunication services for decade's continued to be very strong. Since the introduction of cellular technology the capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712284
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Can internet infrastructure help reduce regional disparities? : evidence from Turkey
Celbis M.G.; de, Crombrugghe D.P.I. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This study presents novel evidence regarding the role of regional internet infrastructure in reducing regional per … the internet infrastructure of a region, facilitates this flow of information. Using the data from the 26 statistical … regions of Turkey, we find evidence that internet infrastructure has contributed to regional convergence during the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100422
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Social Media and Migration Research
McGregor, Elaine; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
The use of internet technologies in daily life has risen dramatically in recent years, increasing researchers' interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856326
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Local Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation and Economic Performance in Developing Countries: A discussion of alternative specifications
Kesidou, Effie; Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This paper examines the importance of local knowledge spillovers for the innovative and economic performance of firms in a developing country context. Theoretical and empirical studies in advanced economies underline the significance of local knowledge spillovers for innovation. However, not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712008