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The political economy of innovation; an institutional analysis of industrial policy and development in Brazil

Menezes, Jose H. V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

questions if innovation has truly been the main driver of those instruments. It provides a brief overview on the intersections … of politics, economics, innovation and institutions as well as the main choices, incentives and alliances of the … Brazilian government, which are illustrated by the Innovation Law, PITCE, PDP and campaign financing of President Lula's 2002 …

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The Governance of Knowledge: Perspectives from Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

Purwaningrum, Farah; Evers, Hans-Dieter; Ariff Lim, Syamimi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The paper revisits the concept of knowledge governance by drawing on the experience of building knowledge clusters in two countries; Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam. It explores the strategies by which a country may take up the governance of knowledge, in the context of avoiding the knowledge...

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Special Border Economic Zone (SBEZ) in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT)

Lord, Montague J.; Tangtrongjita, Pawat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This study provides a review and analysis of the findings from the scoping study on the proposed Malaysian–Thailand Special Border Economic Zone (SBEZ). The study is part of a broader project that intends to support the establishment of an SBEZ that will help to attract investors in productive...

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Sociotechnical systems, innovation and development.

Lepratte, Leandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

) and the complex systems evolutionary economics (EE) to address issues related to innovation processes, technological … of socio-technical systems of production and innovation. Finally, it provides a perspective of generality and scope, an … concepts in the context of the functioning of socio-technical systems of production and innovation. Then as a closure raises …

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Technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development

Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2009

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...

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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

innovation. In other words, competitiveness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for continued prosperity. Hence, the need …

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Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory and job satisfaction in the malaysian retail sector: the mediating effect of love of money

Tan, Teck Hong; Waheed, Amna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper examines what motivates employees in the retail industry, and examines their level of job satisfaction, using Herzberg's hygiene factors and motivators. In this study, convenience sampling was used to select sales personnel from women's clothing stores in Bandar Sunway shopping mall...

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Knowledge-based economies and the institutional environment

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

economic development. Knowledge-based economies are founded on increasing specialization, research, innovation and learning … training, innovation, information infrastructure, the institutional regime. This contribution will focus mainly on one of those …

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Knowledge cluster formation as a science policy: lessons learned

Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Regional science policy aims at the creation of productive knowledge clusters, which are central places within an epistemic landscape of knowledge production and dissemination, K-clusters are said to have the organisational capability to drive innovations and create new industries. The following...

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Diversification and development of the UAE’s economy

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This contribution examines the major features of UAE’s economy, its factors of strengths, undelying also its critical aspects. Furthermore, the work focuses on the crucial factors that characterize a diversified knowledge economy and indicates the policies that the economy of the United Arab...

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