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for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms' innovation, measured, as the … the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance. In this work, we analyse the … three economic areas: USA, Japan and Europe and we select their environmental and dirty patents from European Patent Office …
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of service output compared to the EU-15. There is a strong link between servitization and technological innovation at …
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The paper explores a novel extension of the R&D-productivity literature. It puts forward an empirical model where sectoral productivity growth is related to the characteristics of technological regimes and a set of other industry-specific economic features. The model is estimated on a...
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This paper investigates the empirical relevance of a model of structural change and the growth of industrial sectors. The model analyses the process of diffusion of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) and how this affects the dynamic performance of manufacturing and service industries. The...
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. This paper discusses with the framework of the “latecomers”. In these countries, the factor of innovation has been produced … innovation and growth in less favourable surroundings than those of developed Europe. …
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. This is because fast growing small firms create new markets and jobs. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program … has played an important role in the United States in subsidization providing two billion dollars every year. Japan started … its own SBIR program inspired by that in the United States. This paper examines the direct effects of Japan's SBIR program …
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The purpose of the present study is to examine the effects of the five elements of TQM practices on employees’ affective commitment within six major Malaysian semiconductor contract manufacturing organizations. Despite extensive research on TQM practices, the issue of linking TQM practices...
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A two country, three sector hybrid model of structural change with distortionary government policies is used to quantify the impact of international trade and trade reform for industrialization. The model features Arming- ton motivated trade in agriculture and industry, and a novel...
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In this paper Pasinetti’s model of structural economic dynamics (1981) is extended to consider international economic relations. Conditions for full employment, full expenditure of income and equilibrium of the trade balance are established for an open economy that requires capital goods to...
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Although the Structural Economic Dynamic approach provides a simultaneous consideration of demand and supply sides of economic growth, it does not take into fully account the possible role played by demand in the generation of technical progress. From a neo-Kaldorian perspective, this paper...
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