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This study gauges the status of transition in the formerly centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, using a broad approach that compares countries with respect to their business environment, competition, and managerial practices; and assesses transition progress at the...
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This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …
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countries, which are frequently mentioned as leading countries with respect to eco-innovation. Different indicators are …
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and carefully-designed innovation policies. …
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This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...
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emphasizes a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains. It is unsurprising, then, that policy … makers and researchers widely acknowledge that innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is … extensively as a proxy for innovation in the literature. Here, we use a production function approach to estimate the return to R …
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In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978. Economic activities have shifted from the...
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government and political stability are important for the growth performance of African countries. -- growth ; innovation …
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Asian ones. Development ultimately requires, as it did across Asia, significant innovation and creativity in business … organization, technology, wider institutional structures, and government policies. -- Asia ; innovation ; lessons ; economic …
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specialisation and innovation; removing remaining barriers to entrepreneurship and competition; ensuring access to finance for SMEs …
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