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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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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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main determinants. We investigate the role played by different types of innovation, increasing international openness …, demand, norms limiting competition and employment change. The results are consistent with our thesis that technology and … globalization shape the bargaining power of workers; increasing wages are found in industries characterized by product innovation …
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<em>Innovation and performance in the long run: the case of Europe</em> - In this article we present the results of a … recent work on the long-term mechanisms of innovation and performance in Europe which contributes to the European innovation … scoreboard. Data from different waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) have been used as an instrument for understanding …
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What is the relationship between technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development? Is it better for … knowledge, innovation and growth in the past and by identifying whether and how the scope for catch-up growth exists. We focus … on the interesting case of technological innovation in the comparative economic performance of China; we draw some …
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