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With the death of Prof. Vittorio Santaniello in the summer of 2007, the International Consortium for Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR) lost one of its most enthusiastic founders and most important contributors. This special issue celebrates Prof. Santaniello’s commitment to the...
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) technology. To facilitate the PPA negotiations, this report produces the half-hourly dispatch of the plant’s gas component and …
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The primary aim of this report is to produce hourly yield projections of electricity power for the proposed LFR plant at Collinsville, Queensland, Australia based on the environmental condition between 2007 and 2013. However, the techniques and methods used to overcome the inadequacies of the...
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of firms’ classification according to pattern and intensity of innovation and the use of technology. This topic is of … relevance to Luxembourg, as to date no such specific classification exists for this country. Existing classifications are …' innovation competencies, the technology used, and the human skills. Firms in the sample are classified into 4 groups, named …
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population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The role of technology in relation to the environmental impact of economic activity … of the human population; the nature and extent of the economy and technology. Past GDP growth rates combined with UN …
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. Intuition dictates that these countries should change their strategy from being merely merchandise producers to technology … developers in order to experience higher level of development. Hence, the study analyses the effect of technology production and …
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Why are some countries more technologically innovative than others? The dominant explanation amongst political-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no agreement on precisely how this happens, exactly...
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This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post-war years and became more technologically sophisticated,...
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The bulk of the global innovative effort takes place in 5 countries: USA, Japan and China as leaders, with France and United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The present paper attempts to answer the following...
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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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