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Learning in Local Systems and Global Links: The Otigba Computer Hardware Cluster in Nigeria
Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
Conventional wisdom suggests to the fact that poor countries are unlikely to be host to a “high-technology” sector and doing so within the organization of small and medium enterprises. This paper examines an unusual phenomenon of industrial organization in an African setting; the emergence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712127
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The Innovative Performance of Alliance Block Members: Evidence from the Microelectronics Industry
Duysters, Geert; Lemmens, Charmianne; Letterie, Wilko; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
The primary goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of the complex relationship between the positioning of companies in alliance networks and their innovative performance. In particular, we expect that a firm's innovative performance depends partly on its position in specific network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712036
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FDI and Innovation as Drivers of Export Behaviour: Firm-level Evidence from East Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation and exporting in electronics firms in three late industrializing East Asian countries (China, Thailand and the Philippines) drawing on recent developments in applied international trade and innovation and learning. Technology-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712056
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Alliance block composition patterns in the microelectronics industry
Duysters, Geert; Lemmens, Charmianne - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
In this note we examine whether a position in a technology alliance block is accessible to everyone. It appears that partners are selected on the basis of distinctive attributes they have, which can inhibit outsiders to join these alliance groups. Our findings clearly indicate that alliance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712233
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategies in ICT SMEs in Enlarged Europe (EU25)
Lal, Kaushalesh; Dunnewijk, Theo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Innovation strategies of entrepreneurs are mapped with growth and performance of their firms in this study. Findings of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712245
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Mapping the interdisciplinary nature and co-evolutionary patterns in five nano-industrial sectors
Wang, Lili; Notten, Ad - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
Along with the rapid growth of nanoscience research and the wide application of nanotechnology into various industrial fields, the innovation patterns and co-evolutionary natures of multiple nano industrial sectors has drawn much attention from scholars. Based on a continuously updated...
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Is that Innovation? Assessing Examples of Revitalized Economic Dynamics among Clusters of Small Producers in Northern Vietnam
Voeten, Jaap; Haan, Job de; Groot, Gerard de - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
of four cases of small producers' clusters in Northern Vietnam. The entrepreneurs managed to implement innovation on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712114
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Incubators as Tools for Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries
Akcomak, Semih - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
This paper reviews the literature on incubators in developed and developing countries. We show that the concept of incubators has evolved in time according to market and firm needs. Contemporary successful incubators are profit-oriented, provide a wide range of services, focus more on intangible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712190
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New Technologies in remittances sending: Opportunities for mobile remittances in Africa
Siegel, Melissa; Fransen, Sonja - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....
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Informal knowledge exchanges under complex social relations: A network study of handloom clusters in Kerala, India
Cowan, Robin; Kamath, Anant - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
. This cluster’s experience is investigated on how its thickly homophilous networks have steered it from dominance to decline … clusters dependent upon informal knowledge exchanges. Hence, we provide evidence that social embeddedness is not as detrimental … rural traditional technology clusters intensively involving community social capital; such clusters being ubiquitous in …
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