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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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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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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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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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Diversification and development of the UAE’s economy

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This contribution examines the major features of UAE’s economy, its factors of strengths, undelying also its critical aspects. Furthermore, the work focuses on the crucial factors that characterize a diversified knowledge economy and indicates the policies that the economy of the United Arab...

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Information Security System and Development of a Modern Organization

Wawak, Slawomir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Information security management systems are increasingly applied in a number of sectors of the new, global, interconnected economy. They are used by production and service companies, businesses that provide information technology and telecom services, state administration authorities and local...

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Knowledge Clusters and Knowledge Hubs: Designing Epistemic Landscapes for Development

Evers, Hans-Dieter; Gerke, Solvay; Menkhoff, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

With globalization and knowledge-based production, firms may cooperate on a global scale, outsource parts of their administrative or productive units and negate location altogether. The extremely low transaction costs of data, information and knowledge seem to invalidate the theory of...

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Pourquoi s'intéresser à la notion d'"Evidence -based policy" ?

Laurent, Catherine; Baudry, Jacques; Berrier-Solliec, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

"Evidence-based medicine” approaches began to be formalized in the early 1990s to promote a conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in decision-making on care for individual patients. These approaches were subsequently extended to other spheres of public decision...

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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development

Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines the impact of transaction costs on economic welfare and development. We extend the static model of Romer (1994), in which transaction costs reduce welfare by the reducing the equilibrium number of intermediate goods, and estimate the welfare losses in the case of domestic...

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