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Are patients and relatives the better innovators? : the case of medical smartphone applications

Goeldner, Moritz; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2016

the German, UK, and U.S. markets for medical smartphone apps (Apple App Store) and conduct 16 semi-structured interviews … App Store customers than apps created by professional software companies. Apps developed by patients' relatives achieve … significantly more downloads and generate on average three times higher revenues per year. The initial medical smartphone app …

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Partnerships for affordable and equitable disaster insurance

Myšiak, Jaroslav; Pérez-Blanco, C. D. - 2015

Extreme events are becoming more frequent and intense, inflating the economic damages and social hardship set-off by natural catastrophes. Amidst budgetary cuts, there is a growing concern on societies' ability to design solvent disaster recovery strategies, while addressing equity and...

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Public-private collaboration on productive development in Uruguay

Pittaluga, Lucía; Rius, Andrés; Bianchi, Andrés; … - 2014

The PPC for PDPs implemented in Uruguay in recent years have provided fertile ground for research. Many have achieved results that can be analyzed within the scope of their respective histories and institutional settings. The study inquires about what PPCs maximize the benefits of PDP results...

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Public-private collaboration on productive development policies in Argentina

Bisang, Roberto; González, Andrea; Hallak, Juan Carlos; … - 2014

This study discusses four cases of public-private collaboration (PPC) in the design and implementation of productive development policies (PDP) in Argentina. We find that PPCs have contributed to the success of most of the studied PDPs by facilitating information sharing and creating...

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Public-private collaboration on productive development policies in Colombia

Eslava, Marcela; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Perry, Guillermo - 2014

This Working Paper analyzes the institutions that shape public-private collaboration for the design and implementation of productive development policies in Colombia. These policies are increasingly designed in the context of formal institutions and venues, with public-private collaboration...

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Public-private collaboration on productive development in Chile

Zahler, Andrés; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Goya, Daniel; … - 2014

This Working Paper provides an in-depth analysis of public-private collaboration (PPC) in Chilean productive development policies (PDPs) through five case studies under two specific polices: the Technology Consortia Program and the National Cluster Policy. The analysis is based on a set of more...

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From fixed to state-dependent duration in public-private partnerships

Danau, Daniel; Vinella, Annalisa - 2015

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Institutions for effective business-government collaboration : micro mechanisms and macro politics in Latin America

Schneider, Ben Ross - 2013

What makes for effective cooperation between government and business in industrial policy? Core research questions on the institutional design of arrangements for business-government interactions focus on three main functions: i) maximizing the benefits of dialogue and information exchange; ii)...

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Financing infrastructure

Mello, Luiz R. de; Sutherland, Douglas - 2014

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Urban water systems in India : a way forward

Shah, Mihir - 2016

Urban water and wastewater management are relatively under-studied subjects in India. The Indian urban space has been understood in an undifferentiated manner, which ignores the specificities deriving from the stage of urban development, the sources of water, as also the diverse nature of...

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