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Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global food demands. Changes in trends of weather conditions projected by global climate models will challenge physiological limits of crops and exacerbate the global food challenge by...
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This paper develops a model for analyzing the costs and benefits of intellectual property enforcement in LDCs. The North is more productive than the South and is the only source of innovator. There are two types of goods, and each bloc has a comparative advantage in producing a specific type of...
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investment incentives of the initial innovator, contrary to much of the cumulative innovation literature. Indeed, as the effect …
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In this paper we study the welfare effect of a monopoly innovation. Unlike many partial equilibrium models carried out … technical innovation carried out by a monopolist could significantly increase the social welfare. We conclude that, in general …, the criticism against monopoly innovation based on its increased deadweight loss is less accurate than previously …
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associated with their innovation performance. Using a sample of Flemish firms, we show that there exists considerable … heterogeneity in the type of links to science at the firm level. Overall, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation …
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The study aims at providing new evidence with respect to the still unresolved question, whether the innovation … identifies a set of innovation strategies (cluster analysis), whose adequacy he evaluates using the 'economics of innovation' as … reference. Secondly, the author investigates the dynamics of innovation strategies to get some insights into structural change …
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Knowledge exchange, innovation policy, and international trade flows are key aspects of the knowledge-based economy. In … relation between innovation and exports. …
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The authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de-risking while addressing Paris Agreement commitments and UN Sustainable Development Goals. This should be achieved by creating signals for private investors through: (1) a...
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The term "smart cities" is a widely used, but at the same time a highly fuzzy concept. The fuzziness hinders our understanding on the benefits of its adoption, and explains the existence of many relevant activities with fragmented or distorted views of what a truly smart city is. The aim of this...
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" (TH) as attempts to find surplus value in bringing industrial innovation closer to public R&D. Whereas the firm is central … can take leading roles in innovation eco-systems. In addition to the (transversal) technology transfer at each moment of … feedforward ones that drive innovation eco-systems towards self-organization and the auto-catalytic generation of new options. The …
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