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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...
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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 …
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This essay uses Edmund Phelps’ new book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change … (Phelps <CitationRef CitationID="CR67">2013</CitationRef>) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book … niggardly evaluation of European innovation, and the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the claim that the rate of …
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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...
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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...
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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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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...
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being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
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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. …
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&D, innovation and economic performance, considering the impact of innovation of export success. We develop a simultaneous three … dynamics of innovation and export performance: first, the capacity of firms to translate their R&D efforts in new products …; second, the role of innovation as a determinant of export market shares; third, the export success as a driver of new R …
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