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This dissertation treats the topic of environmentally unfriendly consumption behaviour in relation to air pollution and the use of automobiles in Mexico City by analyzing three related aspects: i) relevant factors of driving patterns, ii) differences in the extent of pollution arising from...
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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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Heterodox environmental economics is mainly based on non-mainstream economic theories; more precisely it refers to institutional and Schumpeterian economics. Starting from these theoretical foundations, heterodox environmental economics radically differs from the mainstream approach to...
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The challenges we face in our economies and societies in our divided unsustainable world are perhaps greater than at …, governed and acted as though our world is comprised of parts that can be separately exploited by humans and managed by us from … one stable state to another. We have forgotten we are just one species in a complex natural world. We have tended to act …
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Financing innovation presents informational and control problems for the financier, and different solutions are used … in innovation during the 2007-8 financial crisis for both. We extend prior theories of external financing’s effect on … effect on company innovation on entering the crisis, but increased university innovation. Overall, however, company patenting …
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of innovation for a better management of irrigation water. It takes into account all potential forms of technological … innovation for sustainable development. This analysis is supporting a questionnaire on irrigation practices targeting fifty …
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account some potential forms of technological innovation for sustainable development. For this purpose, this paper tries to …
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The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
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I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...
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