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This paper addresses the problem of knowledge and the far-reaching implications it bears upon innovation and the … with theory and evidence from the economics of innovation, but fundamentally at odds with a number of important tenets of …
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The Ministry of Economic Development ran a series of seminars about economic growth in 2004. One was an economic history of economic growth in New Zealand, three were on different and sometimes contradictory conceptual ways of thinking about economic growth – endogenous growth theory, Austrian...
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a broad overview of the field of innovation studies. We focus on the the … economics and sociology of innovation, which we can define as the study of the dynamic processes of generation, development … research on innovation, we have chosen a disciplinary criterion. We have therefore identified several different theoretical …
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This paper presents an explanation of how the dynamic but uncertain process of economic development and growth occurs. It shows that economic development leads to structural change, an enhancement of capabilities and path dependence in the economy. It examines three different approaches to...
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innovation to economic growth. This paper is based on the theorem that was built up in the paper that I wrote in 2007 entitled …
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influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …
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Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … activism on innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps … reduce policy uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that …
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We analyze the evolution of the innovation process in the US defence industry. We show that, in spite of the fall of …
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In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch...
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The paper presents the analysis of recent developments of Schumpeterian theory of entrepreneurship and innovation in …
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