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Thinking locally: Exploring the importance of a subsidiary-centered model of FDI-related spillovers in Brazil
Marin, Anabel; Costa, Ionara - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
This paper investigates FDI-related spillovers in Brazil for the period 1996-2005. In contrast to most previous recent studies, which have failed to identify any significant effects in emerging economies, we found that horizontal spillovers did arise in Brazil. However, they did not arise simply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712025
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Knowledge-based productivity in low-tech industries: evidence from firms in developing countries.
Goedhuys, Micheline; Janz, Norbert; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
examines the knowledge-based determinants of productivity of firms active in food processing, textiles, and garments and … productivity in the different industries. The knowledge sources driving productivity performance are very different across sectors …. In food processing, firm productivity is most strongly affected by quality of management and foreign ownership linkages …
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Product, process and organizational innovation: drivers, complementarity and productivity effects
Polder, Michael; Leeuwen, George van; Mohnen, Pierre; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712242
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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 hierarchy is understood as a geographical clustering of regions, where important differences exist in terms of innovation and growth dynamics between the clusters. The literature on...
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Developing science, technology and innovation indicators: what we can learn from the past
Soete, Luc; Freeman, Chris - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
The science-technology-innovation system is one that is continuously and rapidly evolving. The dramatic growth over the last twenty years in the use of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators appears first and foremost the result of a combination between on the one hand the easiness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856492
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Innovation and productivity
Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712167
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Habit Formation, Demand and Growth through Product Innovation
Garcia-Torres, M. Abraham - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
Growth theory has mainly focused on process innovation, either through an increase in quality of the product or a reduction on the cost. The main contributions in growth theory that includes product innovation has been done in the Dixit and Stiglitz framework. This framework works with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712314
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Sunk costs, extensive R&D subsidies and permanent inducement effects
Arqué-Castells, Pere; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
We study whether there is scope for using subsidies to smooth out barriers to R&D performance and expand the share of R&D firms in Spain. We consider a dynamic model with sunk entry costs in which firms’ optimal participation strategy is defined in terms of two subsidy thresholds that...
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Preparing for the Next, Very Long Crisis: Towards a ‘Cool’ Science and Technology Policy Agenda For a Globally Warming Economy
David, Paul A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
This short paper on a very big subject deals with a worry - a worry that the present economic crisis is likely to contribute to the already-existing temptations of governmental and private actors alike to behave in a time-inconsistent fashion when responding to the challenge of climate change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856364
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The Determinants of Pharmaceutical R&D Expenditures: Evidence from Japan
Mahlich, Jörg C.; Roediger-Schluga, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
During the past 20 years, the world pharmaceutical industry has experienced a dramatic increase in R&D intensity. We apply and extend a model developed by Grabowski and Vernon (2000) with a pooled data sample of the 15 publicly listed Japanese drug firms for the period 1987 to 1998. As in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856449