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African countries lag clearly behind developed countries when it comes to accumulating technological capabilities, upgrading and catching up. Also, firms in least developed countries are characterised by very low levels of absorptive capacity. It is therefore crucial to understand how this...
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This study investigates the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry from the 1960s to the mid 1990s. Various proxies for the rate of return of R&D (e.g. expected profit, sales and R&D productivity) as well as the availability of internal funding (proxied by past...
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plagued by low pay-off in relation to very high investments in R&D and innovation efforts. Using new data, we show that this … related to the Swedish paradox. We take account of the history of innovation policy in Sweden and – on the basis of the …
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The focus in this paper is on industrial dynamics and its impact on energy systems.. We highlight some fundamental patterns of this long-term dynamics, using the Dahmenian concept ‘development blocks’, with ‘market widening’ and ‘market suction’, and discuss the implications for...
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The vast literature of systems of innovation is rich in theoretical and empirical studies about the complexity and … manner the nature and types of strategic choices that public actors in systems of innovation are facing given the ever … posing to systems of innovation in industrialised and developing countries, past and present. The next section approaches the …
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The paper focuses on energy transitions in Europe over the last four centuries. Special attention is given to the models of theoretical explanations for the historical energy transitions and how these may be empirically assessed. The twin model of serial substitutions (supply side) and energy...
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corporate innovation in small technology-based firms. An analysis of 135 Swedish technology-based firms suggests that board … involvement in decision control may influence corporate innovation. The empirical results show that board involvement in strategic … decision control is positively associated with process innovation, while board involvement in financial decision control is …
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science and innovation policies. The variety of forms of university-industry linkages and spatial relationships that … the 1990s has led to the emergence of new systems of innovation, in which university-industry linkages have been sought as …
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There has been an increasing interest in the determinants and outcomes of successful technology transfer and commercialization of research results. In this study we test the validity of the “knowledge corridor” thesis for explaining the involvement of university professors’ in the early...
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the environment for innovation and technology transfer. The rationale behind these innovation policies, as the “new …” policies are often called, seems also to have been strongly influenced by a “new innovation paradigm”. Even though innovation …, institutions, cultures, etc. In this text, I elaborate on these issues in an analysis of the development of a “new” innovation …
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