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The article investigates the impact of clusters on the social environment and the impact of institutional factors on the formation and development of clusters. The authors proceed from the obvious assumption that the basic prerequisite for successful clustering is the development of...
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Innovation in the services sectors has been a rather neglected research area under the commonly held view that … manufacturing firms are the main drivers of innovation in developed economies. The rise of the service economy has redirected the … research agenda towards the potential of services firms to adopt innovation activity. Here we analyze the determinants of …
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This paper aims to seek what type of innovation and to estimate the impact of social capital on the innovation in the … than half of respondents are innovative producers. Innovation of product and organizational are the important types of … innovation in the bamboo handicraft. Social capital, measured by an index of trust significantly influences the innovation index …
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survey applied to maritime and marine organizations in Portugal, Spain, Ireland and United Kingdom. Innovation, human capital …. The study found that the participation in innovation activities and the level of absorptive capacity are critical aspects …
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This paper postulates that a country’s integration into the world economy may lower citizens’ political trust. I argue that economic globalization constrains government’s choice set of feasible policies, impeding responsiveness to the median voter. Matching individual-level survey data...
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Japan has to restructure its social security systems fromtime to time for different reasons like a far more rapid aging of population , the slow down of long term economic growth and deteriorating equity in the inter-generational transfer of welfare .But even then, the basic elements remain the...
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The logic of collective action (Olson 1965) suggests that public broadcasting may be underprovided, because non-contributors are not excluded from receiving the benefits. Why do so many individuals voluntarily contribute to public television, even though they can obtain the benefits of public...
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In city districts in Rome, social and economic inequalities between centre and peripheral belts have been increasing over the last years, in parallel to the on-going suburban sprawl. Electoral data from 2000 to 2013 highlight sharp political polarization too. Votes for left-wing (right-wing)...
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The fruits of economic development have not been percolated down to the tribes and marginalized communities. In the Indian experience, neither more than half a century’s economic planning nor official communal reservation mandates helped to better their lot. Myriads of schemes are being...
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