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The challenge of measuring innovation in emerging economies' firms: A proposal of a new set of indicators on innovation

Marins, Luciana - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

The traditional indicators on innovation rely on the linear assumption that research leads to development, centring on the measurement of inputs and outputs. Based on the traditional innovation indicators, recent studies focused on the industrial innovation process at Latin America state that...

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Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe

Zhang, Ying; Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

Since end of the 1990s, the world has been witnessing a phenomenon of internationalisation of Chinese companies. This internationalisation is often understood through FDI inflows, whereby multinational companies establish their presence in a form of subsidiaries overseas. However, lately many...

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Firms' innovation capability-building paths and the nature of changes in learning mechanisms: Multiple case-study evidence from an emerging economy

Figueiredo, Paulo N.; Cohen, Marcela; Gomes, Saulo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

Although much has been written about organizational-level learning, there is a dearth of empirical studies that explore the role of changes in the nature of firm-centred learning mechanisms in affecting inter-firm differences and similarities in the accumulation of innovation capabilities,...

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Designing plans for organizational development, lessons from three large-scale SME-initiatives

Lommelen, Tinne; Hertog, Friso den; Beck, Lien; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This paper reflects upon the way that we balanced design and development in three specific case projects in order to contribute to creating and accumulating knowledge that is both relevant to practitioners and academics. More specifically, it is shown how learning within one project was used to...

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The determinants of the outward foreign direct investment of China and India: Whither the home country?

Tolentino, Paz Estrella - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

of the outward FDI of China and India using multiple time-series data from 1982 to 2006 and from 1980 to 2006 … Granger cause the level of outward FDI of China. By contrast, the national technological capability of India Granger causes …-specific macroeconomic factors considered, while the level of outward FDI of India Granger causes their national interest rate. …

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Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and Their Interplay

Niosi, Jorge; Tschang, F. Ted - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

China and India are emerging as major new entrants in the international software industry. Both are rapidly learning …

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India's Outward Foreign Direct Investments in Steel Industry in a Chinese Comparative Perspective

Kumar, Nagesh; Chadha, Alka - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Indian and Chinese enterprises have emerged as important outward investors in recent times with their involvement in a number of prominent Greenfield investments and acquisitions. The theory of international business posits that the ownership of some unique advantages having a revenue generating...

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The growth of outward FDI and the competitiveness of the underlying economy: the case of India

Narula, Rajneesh; Prasad Kodiyat, Tiju - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

the strengths and weaknesses in the location assets of India have caused pockets of excellence to emerge, but that these … sustainable. Systematic upgrading and radical policy changes are needed to build up India's knowledge infrastructure and … institutions to support a shift in India's competitive advantages to new sectors outside these pockets. This ultimately means a …

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Learning Networks Matter: Challenges to Developing Learning-Based Competence in Mango Production and Post-Harvest in Andhra Pradesh, India

Prasad Pant, Laxmi; Hambly Odame, Helen; Hall, Andy; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

and being the largest international mango producer, India still struggles to build momentum in rapidly emerging export …

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Indian Pharma Within Global Reach?

Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

to India's new TRIPS-compliant intellectual property regime and other rules aimed at enhancing the industry's credibility …

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