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Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico: Neo-developmental vs. Neo-liberal approaches
Shafaeddin, Mehdi; Gallaher, Kevin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Abstract Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexico’s export-led market reforms over the past quarter century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its exports of manufactured goods and has...
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The EU Framework Programs: Are they worth doing?
Dekker, Ronald; kleinknecht, A.H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Using CIS data from the Netherlands, Germany and France we test whether EU Framework programs do have effects on their participants' R&D input and innovative output. From our Heckman selection equations, we conclude that the FPs attract the "elite" of European innovators. The question is...
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Research, higher education and innovation: redesigning multi-level governance within Europe in a period of crisis
Ritzen, Jo; Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
In this paper we present a vision for the course Europe should take in its research and higher education policies in order to fully live up to the expectations of its citizens to provide a safe, comfortable, affluent and sustainable environment in this period of considerable financial restraint...
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The Government’s Role in Innovation Projects: Capabilities and Constraints
Kitova, Galina; Kuznetsova, Tatyana; Samovoleva, Svetlana - In: Foresight-Russia 1 (2007) 1, pp. 54-60
The transition to a contemporary innovation model of economy, declared today as a key task for Russia is impossible … without the diversification of forms and mechanisms of involving government into innovation processes, which largely depends …
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Auswirkungen der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Innovationstätigkeit der Unternehmen in Deutschland
Rammer, Christian - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 80 (2011) 3, pp. 13-34
The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …
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Rethinking the Typology of Western European Welfare States
Kiss, Marietta - In: Romanian Economic Journal 15 (2012) 45, pp. 87-122
The newest, quadripartite typology of Western European welfare states needs some modifications nowadays. The Nordic and the Southern model have remained intact but the Continental and the Anglo-Saxon types have significantly converged (regardless of the economic crisis) that can be explained...
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Redistributive Taxation, Public Expenditure, and Size of Governent
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Esteban, Joan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
We introduce a model of redistributive income taxation and public expenditure. This joint treatment permits analyzing the interdependencies between the two policies: one cannot be chosen independently of the other. Empirical evidence reveals that partisan confrontation essentially falls on...
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A Politico-Economic Model of Public Expenditure and Income Taxation
Esteban, Joan; Mayoral, Laura - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013
We model the political process as consisting of voting on the issue considered salient, public expenditure, with a subsequent consensus over size of government and income taxation. We prove that for each majoritarian choice there is a unique consensus policy on progressivity and government size....
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Information technologies and provision of national identificacion cards by the Bolivian Police: Evidence from two randomized natural field experiments
Chong, Alberto; Salas, Gustavo Machicado; Yanez-Pagans, … - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2014
This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic process: the renewal of a national identification card by the...
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Literature Review of Recent Trends and Future Prospects for Innovation in Climate Change Mitigation
Newell, Richard G. - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2009
parts per million will require policy changes along with innovation and large-scale adoption of GHG-reducing technologies … innovation in climate change mitigation, to identify the most important international and domestic actions necessary to … that mitigate climate change. It examines the role of environment and innovation policy measures to encourage innovation …
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