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The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing … innovation activity of a firm, including structural characteristics (size, industry, etc.), competitive environment (intensity of … competition and type of main competitors), changes in financial position of a firm, it's pre-crisis performance and innovation …
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incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal … vertically organized sectors that define innovation activeness in the economy (for example, mechanical engineering), the …
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exogenous technological change but by repeatedly leapfrogging their competitors through product and process innovation. This … shifts the focus from the mechanical production process to the collaborative innovation process, which requires social …
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. This is because fast growing small firms create new markets and jobs. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program …
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entrepreneurial activity. We also examine evidence suggesting that it is young firms, not small ones, where job growth and innovation …
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This article analyzes factors which, in light of the classical industrial location theory, account for the location of manufacturing industries in Colombia. The document shows how it is that agglomeration economies represent the paramount determiner which explains the localition choices of...
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Increasing energy consumption has been one of the major issues in the environmental and industrial economics in the context of global climate change. Recent literature has dealt with several methodological and application issues related to the technique of decomposing changes in industrial...
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Using data for twelve manufacturing industries over the period 1980-2006, we perform for Italy and Spain a dynamic panel estimation of the long-run elasticity of TFP with respect to R&D capital. The results show that in Spain high-tech industries have experienced a similar or slightly higher R&D...
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larger number of industries in the second panel. These results suggest that the policies encouraging innovation implemented … from 1991 onwards paid off in the second half of the 1990s, with innovation driving firm sales. In traditional industries …, the effect of innovation can be interpreted as an effort to catch up with the global technology frontier. In the …
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during technological innovation. Taking into account behavioral changes, authors carry out a micro-level analysis based on … research organizations, they mention as barriers primarily the lack of companies' receptivity to innovation and inadequate …
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