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Assessing risk discourses: Nano S&T in the Global South
Kanerva, Minna - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
Nano science and technology (nano S&T) has potential to change our lives for the better, but at the same time, it causes also a significant amount of concern in terms of related health, environmental, ethical and societal risks. It is increasingly recognized that addressing these concerns...
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Where are innovation indicators, and their applications, going?
Gault F. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper reviews the current state of indicators of the activity of innovation and how they are presented for use in the policy process leading to a discussion of the development of new indicators, some outside of the business sector, which raises questions about the definition of innovation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004587
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The Spatial Hierarchy of Technological Change and Economic Development in Europe
Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
This paper discusses the possibility of a spatial hierarchy of innovation and growth dynamics in Europe. A spatial … components analysis are used to explore the possibility of a spatial hier-archy in Europe. The results point to a hierarchy … consisting of four groups: South Europe, East Europe, and two groups in West and North Europe. Growth and innovation performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712089
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Developing internationally comparable indicators for the commercialization of publicly-funded research
Arundel, Anthony; Bordoy, Catalina - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
patent applications and grants, they produce more start-ups, and have comparable results for the number of licenses executed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712279
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Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions
Schoenmakers, Wilfred; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
is very important. For our research we made use of the EPO (European Patent Office) database on patents. We used the … number of forward patent citations per patent to identify radical from non-radical inventions. For our analysis we used the … backward patent citations per patent. In order to test if the two groups we are considering are truly different and to see on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856298
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The making of national giants: technology and governments shaping the international expansion of oil companies from Brazil and China
Pereira de Carvalho, Flavia; Goldstein, Andrea - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This chapter analyses foreign direct investments (henceforth FDI) in the oil industry from two large emerging economies, Brazil and China, with the purpose to understand the role of Governments and technology in the internationalisation strategies of those firms. The chapter shows that the...
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Catching up in pharmaceuticals: a comparative study of India and Brazil
Guennif, Samir; Ramani, Shyama - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
Since the mid-twentieth century, the national objective of India and Brazil has been to develop industrial capabilities in essential sectors such as pharmaceuticals. At the outset, they shared some common features: a considerable period of lax intellectual property rights regimes, large internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712130
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Institutions, Foreign Direct Investment, and Domestic Investment: crowding out or crowding in?
Farla, Kristine; de Crombrugghe, Denis; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
Studies of the relationship between FDI and domestic investment levels reach contradictory findings. We revisit this empirical relationship and argue that some of the conflicting evidence may be explained by the use of poor proxies for the true underlying variables and by questionable...
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Towards the societal system of innovation: The case of metropolitan areas in Europe
Turkeli S.; Wintjes R.J.M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
societal challenges in the largest cities in Europe. These metropolitan areas consistently show resounding characteristics in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856313
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National Systems of Innovations and the Role of Demand. A Cross Country Comparison
Garcia, Abraham - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
This article focuses on the role of demand in the National System of Innovations: why it is so important, and how does it affect the dynamics of the system and the flow of inventions and innovations. To study the evolutions and the dynamics of the different systems a series of composite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712076