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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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The Radical Innovation Investment Decision Refined
Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791525
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The Financing of R&D and Innovation
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lerner, Josh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856381
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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization
Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856410
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884187
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884235
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Job Creation Effects of R&D Expenditures: Are High-tech Sectors the Key?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2011
In this paper we assess the job creation effect of R&D expenditures, using a unique longitudinal database of 677 European companies over the period 1990-2008. We estimate a dynamic labour demand specification using a Least Squares Dummy Variable Corrected (LSDVC) technique. The labour-friendly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886125
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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer
Helmers, Christian; Hall, Bronwyn H. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
innovation and international technology transfer in general.  The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous.  We then … discuss the implications of these findings and other technology-specific evidence for the diffusion of climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004303
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272604
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The Virtuous Circle of Innovation in Italian Firms
Bogliacino, Francesco; Lucchesex, Matteo; Nascia, Leopoldo - UN - RCE - CID - 2015
ISTAT, the National Institute of Statistics, including data from three waves of Community Innovation Surveys. The model we … effects of innovative efforts, and the feedbacks between economic success and the ability to sustain innovation expenditure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276511