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Innovativity: A comparison across seven European countries

Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the...

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Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions

Schoenmakers, Wilfred; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

This paper looks at the special characteristics of radical inventions. It tries to identify those variables that differentiate radical inventions from non-radical inventions. Since radical inventions are very important for the economy as a whole and for the individual firm performances,...

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Explaining Success and Failure in Development

Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Since 1950, there has been considerable diversity in developing country experiences. Some countries and some regions have experienced rapid growth and catch up, others have fallen behind. At a global level there is an increasing inequality of per capita incomes. However, within the framework of...

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The Heterogeneity of MNC' Subsidiaries and Technology Spillovers: Explaining positive and negative effects in emerging economies

Marin, Anabel; Sasidharan, Subash - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Conventional models of multinational corporation (MNC) related spillovers in host economies assume that they derive from the technological assets created at the headquarters. Subsidiaries' activities in the host economy are not given any role in this process. In this paper, drawing on recent...

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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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Bridges in social capital: A review of the definitions and the social capital of social capital researchers

Akcomak, Semih - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

There has been a recent surge of interest in social economics and social capital. Articles on social capital that are published in the last five years constitute more than 60 percent of all articles on social capital. Research on social capital is now massive and spans sociology, economics,...

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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia

Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper reflects on the experience of the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in Asia. It reconfirms much of what has been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were precisely because lessons from previous research on...

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Social Media and Migration Research

McGregor, Elaine; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

The use of internet technologies in daily life has risen dramatically in recent years, increasing researchers' interest in how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are changing social realities and potentially facilitating innovative research methodologies. As technology and...

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Technological spillovers from multinational presence - Towards a conceptual framework

Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

This paper undertakes a critical review of existing spillover analyses and proposes a unique analytical framework for examining technological spillovers in a manufacturing industry setting. The proposed framework overlaps three different literature strands; cluster and network dynamics,...

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Research, higher education and innovation: redesigning multi-level governance within Europe in a period of crisis

Ritzen, Jo; Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

In this paper we present a vision for the course Europe should take in its research and higher education policies in … research policy in Europe. Second, we give our vision for investments in research and higher education for economic growth and … hence also for solving many of the "big challenges" Europe is being confronted with already today but increasingly so in the …

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