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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011
How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323949
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Market Failure and the Poverty of New Drugs in Maternal Health
Fisk, Nicholas M; Atun, Rifat - eSocialSciences - 2008
A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agencies have forgotten pregnant women. Given the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341686
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Technology Sourcing and Internationalisation of IT firms in India
K, Narayanan - eSocialSciences - 2008
The paper analyzes the determinants of internationalisation, defined in terms of export intensity and overseas investments, of the IT firms in India. In particular, the paper examines the role of technology sourcing, both internal (in-house R&D) and external (technology imports), in determining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341763
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Development of Corrugated Fiber Board Cartons for Long Distance Transport of Tomato in India
Sharan, Girja; S, Srivastav; Rawale, Kishor P; Dave, Umang - eSocialSciences - 2008
Tomotaoes which are produced in Gujarat, north west India are small, so the growers were not organized enough to raise funds to sponsor research at public R&D institutions in the area. That task was therefore taken up. Boxes that protected the produce better on long journey and were affordable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341791
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A Review of the Pharmaceutical Industry of Canada
N, Lalitha - eSocialSciences - 2008
Three important aspects of the Canadian pharmaceutical industry-viz. compulsory licence, price control on patented drugs and the R&D scenario. Unlike other developed countries, which have adopted the route of providing higher Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection to promote the growth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487733
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The Future of Drug Development: the Economics of Pharmacogenomics
Vernon, John A.; Hughen, W. Keener - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs,and the future returns to research and development (R&D). While there still remains an abundance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487741
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Review of Input and Output Policies for Cereals Production in Pakistan
Salam, Abdul - eSocialSciences - 2012
This report reviews the input and output policies for cereals implemented in Pakistan during the period 1996–2010. Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output markets, going back decades before the period under review. [IFPRI Discussion Paper 01223]....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133189
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Banking Renaissance: Inclusion, Innovation and Implementation
Mundra, S.S. - eSocialSciences - 2014
Innovative measures needed in our banking sector which would render it more inclusive, vibrant, productive, efficient and above all, customer-centric. [ seventh Annual Banking Conference “Bank on it , 2014†organized by the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945490
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Policy Gaps for Promoting Green Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge in Developing Countries: Learning from Indian Experience
Gupta, Anil. K - eSocialSciences - 2013
sustainable innovation Eco-system have been identified. The concept of National Innovation System [NIS], which ignored the … for changing the mindset and creating a new set of institutional conditions to promote creativity and innovation at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945496
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Decrypting E-Governance: Narratives, Power play and Participation in the Gyandoot Intranet
Sreekumar, T.T. - eSocialSciences - 2006
essentially administrative innovation facilitated by ICTs and recognition of e-governance as social process which involves not … forces shaping the trajectory of the evolution of this technocratic innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341741