of the larger income generating sectors should also take advantage of technology. GIS in Tourism has number of … basic infrastructure to support tourism and adopting a policy that i eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable says … Kerala's Tourism's ministrer in 2003. The importance of information technology in increasing in all the sectors. Tourism one …

enough technology has been assimilated. My analysis finds that the rate of technological assimilation is determined by the … landscape of a country. As the technology level increases, income level converges toward the level of developed countries. After … reaching a certain threshold, however, the primary driver of economic growth appears to shift from geography to institutions. …

-term orientation and the local embeddedness of family firms suggest a positive effect on regional innovation activity. Yet, despite the … effect of family firms on regional innovation. Using a dataset of 326 German regions, our regressions show that regions with … a higher share of family firms also show higher levels of innovation activity, as measured by the number of successful …

regions have recognized the significance impact of Science and Technology (S&T) and Education in their sustainable growth. In … the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …

innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the … industrialisation and innovation in India, and argues that the distinction between the knowledge of “how to make” (manufacture) and the … knowledge of “how to make better” (innovation) was inadequately appreciated in development planning in the country. …

Abstract Purpose - Recent OECD (2010, 2011) reports argue that eco-innovation is the key to realising growth. The … purpose of this paper is to analyse the drivers of eco-innovation and to compare the impact of eco-innovation and non-eco-innovation … stimulating eco-innovation. Design/methodology/approach - The approach utilised by this paper is empirical in nature. A modified …

innovation, when innovating agents have different costs and information transfer is expensive. We specify their optimisation …. The effect of expected innovation costs and its standard deviation are shown to be distribution dependent. Expected … considered. Transfer costs are found to be far more influential on switching than innovation costs in a symmetric model. Cost …

United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The … apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation ? A model is introduced in which … equilibrium in which innovating is rational though suboptimal, without premium on innovation being a real economic profit. The …

uses the Schumpeterian model of innovation-diffusion as a framework for the study of "why growth rates differ" between …. Chapter 4, which focuses on the relation between innovation-diffusion, structural changes in world trade and export … material to discuss the implications of innovation-diffusion for changes in specialization patterns/intra-industry trade. The …

regions have recognized the significance impact of Science and Technology (S&T) and Education in their sustainable growth. In … the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …