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(Promoting Local Innovation). The Ethiopian program set up multi-stakeholder teams in different agro climatic zones. The paper …
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"The authors develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvement. That is, the technologies in one sector of the model become not only increasingly capital-intensive, but also progressively productive over time. Application of the basic model to...
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"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 industrial and developing countries, from 1982 to 1997. They measure export product variety by the share of U.S. imports on the set of goods exported by each sampled country relative to...
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describes the human capital needs of the new growth agenda and focuses on education and skills. Chapter three examines the …
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During the last century, Brazil was one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Between 1901 and 2000, Brazil's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita grew at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent. Brazil's long-run growth has rivaled that of counties such as South Korea, universally...
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substantially over the past decade. Lack of diversification cannot be pinned down to a single cause. Competition and innovation are … initiatives to foster innovation could be strengthened through a number of specific measures focusing on commercialization of … analysis of the role of exports, innovation, productivity, and competition on firm performance is presented in section three …
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This note provides a medium-term agenda for supporting Mexico's competitiveness by fostering greater innovation … Mexico's innovation policy agenda. While the firm is at the center of innovation, empirical evidence shows that public policy … can generate an external environment more conducive to innovation. The past decade has brought several policy changes and …
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Chile is increasingly looking to innovation as a pillar of its competitiveness and an engine of growth to close the … an increased awareness of the importance of innovation to growth and a desire to move toward a more diversified and … government commitments to innovation have raised new challenges. The remaining of the report is structured as follows. Chapter …
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Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK - the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning … of thinking and doing. Local innovation is the process through which individuals or groups discover or develop new and …
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