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Patent System, Globalization, and Knowledge Economy
Sideri, Sandro; Giannotti, Pantaleo - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2003
Patents for inventions are at the crossroad of law, technology and economics, with the Patent System resting on two fundamental assumptions: one, that technical progress is desirable and that disclosure is preferable to secrecy; two, that a competitive market economy is in the public interest,...
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Leveraging Service Sector Growth in the Philippines
Mitra, Raja Mikael - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2013
The Philippines is often referred to as a country from which export of services rather than manufactured goods is the principal engine for economic growth, as the share of the service sector in gross domestic product has exceeded that of the industry sector since the mid-1980s. Three major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840997
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Innovation, profitability and growth in medium and high-tech manufacturing industries: Evidence from Italy.
Cozza, Claudio; Malerba, Franco; Mancusi, Maria Luisa; … - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2009
The main goal of this paper is to assess the impact of product innovation on the economic performance of firms … dataset on Italian firms we estimate, by means of propensity scores matching methods, a positive and significant “innovation …. We also find that this innovation premium is particularly large for small firms and even more so when considering new …
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