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Increasing productivity growth through innovation is a key to raising living standards. Although R&D intensity in Japan …. The innovation system, which developed during the catchingup process, is largely input-driven and focused on incremental … innovation based on closed and stable corporate and employment systems. However, this approach is less appropriate in the current …
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factor productivity gains, which are in turn driven to a large extent by innovation. While a number of Korean firms are at …. Innovation also requires policies to ensure the supply of high-quality human capital through reforms of tertiary education. This ….oecd.org/eco/surveys/korea).<P>Maintenir une forte croissance grâce à l'innovation : Réforme des système de R-D et d'éducation<BR>Les apports de main-d’oeuvre et …
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-Wydler Act of 1980, the R&E Tax Credit of 1981, the Small Business Innovation and Development Act of 1982, and the National …
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African countries lag clearly behind developed countries when it comes to accumulating technological capabilities, upgrading and catching up. Also, firms in least developed countries are characterised by very low levels of absorptive capacity. It is therefore crucial to understand how this...
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This study investigates the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry from the 1960s to the mid 1990s. Various proxies for the rate of return of R&D (e.g. expected profit, sales and R&D productivity) as well as the availability of internal funding (proxied by past...
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The focus in this paper is on industrial dynamics and its impact on energy systems.. We highlight some fundamental patterns of this long-term dynamics, using the Dahmenian concept ‘development blocks’, with ‘market widening’ and ‘market suction’, and discuss the implications for...
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ICT productive performances have slowed down since the beginning of the 2000s, before the current crisis. This diagnosis could be due, at least partly, to some statistical mis-measurements of ICT improvements. Nevertheless, improvements in ICT performances will probably be positively impacted,...
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firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and … innovation height matters. We also find evidence that TFP growth is better represented by an upward shift of the production …
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. The main contribution of this paper is to model the innovation channel of finance explicitly. The paper focuses … particularly on the interaction term between the measure of own innovation and financial development. As countries approach the … technological frontier, own innovation becomes more important to sustain a high growth rate. An adequate level of financial …
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environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …
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