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The political economy of innovation; an institutional analysis of industrial policy and development in Brazil

Menezes, Jose H. V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

questions if innovation has truly been the main driver of those instruments. It provides a brief overview on the intersections … of politics, economics, innovation and institutions as well as the main choices, incentives and alliances of the … Brazilian government, which are illustrated by the Innovation Law, PITCE, PDP and campaign financing of President Lula's 2002 …

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Product differentiation and systematic risk: theory and empirical evidence

Bazdresch, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Firms producing differentiated products have high margins and therefore low risk. As a result firms invest more into developing differentiated products when they perceive risk is high. Higher risk also implies higher product skewness towards more differentiated products and therefore higher...

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The Determinants of Corporate Growth

Rosique, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...

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Sociotechnical systems, innovation and development.

Lepratte, Leandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

) and the complex systems evolutionary economics (EE) to address issues related to innovation processes, technological … of socio-technical systems of production and innovation. Finally, it provides a perspective of generality and scope, an … concepts in the context of the functioning of socio-technical systems of production and innovation. Then as a closure raises …

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Technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development

Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2009

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...

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The Geography of Creative People in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Stützer, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

It has been argued that creativity is an important source of regional growth. This article investigates the geography of people in creative occupation in Germany. The population share of the creative class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller...

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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

innovation. In other words, competitiveness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for continued prosperity. Hence, the need …

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Кластерные стратегии и кластерные инициативы: перспективы и факторы эффективной кластеризации

Filippova, Irina; Mindlin, Yuri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The article investigates the impact of clusters on the social environment and the impact of institutional factors on the formation and development of clusters. The authors proceed from the obvious assumption that the basic prerequisite for successful clustering is the development of...

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Knowledge-based economies and the institutional environment

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

economic development. Knowledge-based economies are founded on increasing specialization, research, innovation and learning … training, innovation, information infrastructure, the institutional regime. This contribution will focus mainly on one of those …

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Entrepreneurship: what´s happening?

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Much has been said lately about entrepreneurship, so it seems important to leave here some personal analysis on this topic. The issues outlined here result from a work in about a year in which because a personal and professional obligations it was doing some research on these issues. This is an...

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