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challenge to understand and foster economic development through technology in Haiti. …
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India's diversified and sophisticated manufacturing base contrasts strongly with the near complete absence of visible innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the evident distinction between the ability to make...
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technology and demand factors. The linked worker-plant data are produced by matching workers in the Employment Statistics … database to the plants in the Census of Manufacturing. The employment statistics database is utilised to procure an alternative … technology on skill demand we introduce plant level technology indicators from the R&D Survey and a Manufacturing Technology …
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productivity elsewhere. Why? Destination regions’ ability to harness new technology depends on their absorptive capacity and on the …’s success in capturing foreign technology. Sectors, intensive in heavy manufacturing, register higher productivity growth. Inter …In this paper, all technology transfers are embodied in trade flows within a three-region, six-tradedcommodity version …
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Extant literature indicates that technology, and by implication its underlying knowledge base, determines long … between technology as knowledge and economic performance. This paper imposes a simple production function on annual pooled … observations on Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa over the 1976-2004 period to estimate the marginal impacts of technology as …
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The analysis on the technological and organizational change in the European industry, and particularlly the Portuguese one, has been studied at CESO I&D since its foundation on 1988. Few time after that, started a development project that started from a previous research project on the same...
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More and more companies are using RFID radio chip technology to boost their competitiveness. Yet RFID not only enhances …
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Indeed, the recent emphasis on eco-political governance in Nigeria is unique in that it was initiated by external donors (international organizations) and not by domestic leaders under pressure from their own constituencies. Thus, while Nigeria have embraced the market economy and liberalized...
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In this paper, we empirically investigate the dynamics of the marginal propensity to pirate for computer software. We introduce a state space formulation that allows us to estimate error structures and parameter significance, in contrast to previous work. For data from 1987-92, we find a rising...
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The semi-empirical papers discusses main issues concerning role of new Information and Communication Technologies in fostering economic development worldwide. The author identifies some crucial aspects of the ICTs adoption in developing, as well in developed, countries. To assess the...
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