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This paper develops a growth model to provide a theoretical explanation of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). Paper explains how EKC is shaped with economic development for a given technology. The EKC result arises in two ways – it can be observed from a single technology that matures and...
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The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly … primary studies, we report that the average effect of R&D capital on productivity and the average rate of return on R …-analysis studies. We also report that a range of moderating factors have significant effects on the variation among productivity and …
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European countries. As a whole, Europe is lagging behind in its ability to generate, organise, and sustain innovation processes … position of the US as a locus of innovation in pharmaceuticals has increased over the past decade compared to Europe. All in …
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the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance. In this work, we analyse the … for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms' innovation, measured, as the …
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This paper examines the dynamic and multi-level relationship between organization and innovation from three different …) innovation as a process of organizational learning and knowledge creation; and c) organizational capacity for change and … paper argues that organizational innovation may be a necessary pre-condition for technological innovation, and thus it is …
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KM upon the innovation and labour productivity within the organization, and how KM affects the firm’s innovative …
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Much has been said lately about entrepreneurship, so it seems important to leave here some personal analysis on this topic. The issues outlined here result from a work in about a year in which because a personal and professional obligations it was doing some research on these issues. This is an...
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the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …
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This paper introduces the evolving understanding and conceptualization of innovation process models. From the … discussion of different approaches towards the innovation process understanding and modeling two types of approaches to the … evolution of innovation models are developed and discussed. First the so-called innovation management approach which focuses on …
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In this paper it is analysed the relationships between work organisation and quality systems in firms that uses some forms of advanced automation. Are characterised the existing quality control structures in the Portuguese industry, and the main factors that hidden or fosters the development of...
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