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This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
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city of Hotelling’s model when firms have asymmetric pre-innovation marginal costs of production and compete in prices. We …-drastic innovations. We find that when the innovative firm is efficient compared to the licensee at the pre-innovation stage then the …, this is not true when the innovative firm is inefficient in the pre-innovation stage compared to the licensee. To that end …
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One of the most interesting indicators to show the change in the socio-economic role of universities in the last several decades has been the use of university patenting. However except some individual studies in European countries (e.g. Finland, Norway, Belgium, Italy, Germany and France) there...
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behind the Park as well as the effects of its operation. The author also describes the role of innovation as the main …
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Recent studies in the innovation literature reveal that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) promotes the innovation … shed light on the national innovation activities and anti-corruption programs. …
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commercialization), (ii) the production of vehicles in China and East Asia is vitalizing the market and provoking changes in strategies … the number of subcontractors. These new trends, which include productive globalization, China and new production chains …
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-think these approaches as ways to stimulate innovation in China. … underlying inventions – i.e., their ability to be transformed into something useful and thus constitute innovation. And this is … compounded by various regulatory and institutional factors in China. It is also compounded by the fact that the government has …
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This paper analyzes the role of innovation activities in the export participation of Chinese high-tech firms during the … firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D and product innovation dummies, play only a minor role for domestic … exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech exports but do not rely on indigenous innovation activities. These …
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The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in different West African countries in recent years has been met with growing resistance by established local entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive socio-cultural traits, or whether...
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somewhat discourage building of quality patents and related innovation in China. … enforcement of patent rights in China that hamper patent quality. These range from inadequate review systems to requirements and …
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