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Openness to global market is the only way for a small scale national economy to survive and develop. Therefore, Republic of Macedonia immediately after the independence, declared its international trading system as fully liberal and open, articulated by membership in many important international...
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This paper analyses the regional convergence of sub-national states in the case of Mercosur from 1961 to 2005 by using a non-parametric techniques of clustering under the concept of regime of performance. That is, the convergence between two regions is established by the approximation of their...
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This study contributes to the understanding of the effects of FDI by illustrating that social networks affect technological learning in the Costa Rican ICT cluster in ways that the literature on technological capabilities failed to capture. It is based on extensive qualitative evidence collected...
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The paper studies the structural convergence of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) with the Euro area, in order to determine whether the last decade led an increase or a decrease of the gaps between these two regions. The main findings of the paper indicate that only three CEECs...
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distances and clusters methodology. …
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possible hydrogen and fuel cell clusters is carried out. The current EU policy framework does not hinder hydrogen development … innovative regions. Moreover, the article points out certain industrial clusters that favours some regions' conditions for taking …
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For a few years now, the concept of transnational entrepreneurship (TE) has gained in importance in social sciences. It focuses on individuals having migrated from one country to another, thereby maintaining business-related linkages with their home countries. These transnational entrepre-neurs...
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Garment industry worldwide is undergoing significant restructuring since the final phaseout of the Multi‐fibre Arrangement. The changes are taking place in terms of relocating production sites on the one hand and coping with the new competition on the other. In this context the paper tries to...
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economic clusters tend to have a greater differential effect than others and this effect is smaller the further away they are …
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. Furthermore, it aims to present a normative model for networking knowledge clusters, that is, traditional clusters that are … emergent clusters that include Bioscience, Biotechnology, Multimedia, Tourism, Health, and Knowledge. In this paper, the basic … framework about clusters was expanded, taking as reference the studies of Porter (1985, 1990, 1998, 2005), Feldman (1994 …
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