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Competition-through-innovation: The third industrial stage
Smith, James D - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
exogenous technological change but by repeatedly leapfrogging their competitors through product and process innovation. This … shifts the focus from the mechanical production process to the collaborative innovation process, which requires social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619285
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Evaluation of Small Business Innovation Research Programs in Japan
Inoue, Hiroyasu; Yamaguchi, Eiichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
. This is because fast growing small firms create new markets and jobs. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185699
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Small Business, Innovation, and Tax Policy: A Review
Gale, William; Brown, Samuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
entrepreneurial activity. We also examine evidence suggesting that it is young firms, not small ones, where job growth and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108506
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Entry, Exit, and Productivity in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries
Ben Jelili, Riadh; Goaied, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Almost all countries in the MENA region entered the new millennium with large unemployment rates. In this context, decision makers emphasize the role of efficient markets which could lead to higher firm creation rates and thereby, to lower unemployment rates. Aside to direct employment effects,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260144
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Localización de la industria manufacturera en Colombia 1990-1999
Toro González, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This article analyzes factors which, in light of the classical industrial location theory, account for the location of manufacturing industries in Colombia. The document shows how it is that agglomeration economies represent the paramount determiner which explains the localition choices of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787230
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Decomposition of Industrial Energy Consumption in Indian Manufacturing : The Energy Intensity Approach
Sahu, Santosh; Narayanan, K - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Increasing energy consumption has been one of the major issues in the environmental and industrial economics in the context of global climate change. Recent literature has dealt with several methodological and application issues related to the technique of decomposing changes in industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541477
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R&D and productivity in high-tech manufacturing: a comparison between Italy and Spain
Sterlacchini, Alessandro; Venturini, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using data for twelve manufacturing industries over the period 1980-2006, we perform for Italy and Spain a dynamic panel estimation of the long-run elasticity of TFP with respect to R&D capital. The results show that in Spain high-tech industries have experienced a similar or slightly higher R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919737
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Knowledge sourcing and firm performance in an industrializing economy: The case of Taiwan (1992-2003)
Chang, Chia-Lin; Robin, Stéphane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
larger number of industries in the second panel. These results suggest that the policies encouraging innovation implemented … from 1991 onwards paid off in the second half of the 1990s, with innovation driving firm sales. In traditional industries …, the effect of innovation can be interpreted as an effort to catch up with the global technology frontier. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784946
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Competition, Efficiency and Competition Policy in Tunisia
Ben Jelili, Riadh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Tunisian manufacturing sector plays an important role in the Tunisian economy. It contributes significantly to the Gross Domestic Product, employment, gross fixed capital formation, merchandise exports, and the use of advanced technologies. Accordingly, it has been called upon to play a key role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108814
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An evaluation of policies to reduce fiscal pressure induced by population ageing in Australia
Bell, William Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
growth policies to meet the population ageing induced fiscal pressure in Australia. The research in this thesis attempts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258581