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Innovation strategies and employment in Latin American firms
Zuniga, Pluvia; Crespi, Gustavo - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 24 (2013) C, pp. 1-17
This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in three Latin American countries … by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: “make only” (R&D), “buy only” (external R … strategy). Firms that conduct in-house innovation activities (“make only”) have the greatest impact on employment; the “make …
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Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth
Hanley, Douglas; Akcigit, Ufuk; Serrano-Velarde, Nicolas - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - 2014
This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a general...
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Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth
Akcigit, Ufuk; Hanley, Douglas; Serrano-Velarde, Nicolas - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013
This paper introduces a model of endogenous growth through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692367
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Quality Improvements in Models of Growth
Barro, Robert J.; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Technological progress takes the form of improvements in the quality of an array of intermediate inputs to production. In an equilibrium that is standard in the literature, all research is carried out by outsiders, and success means that the outsider replaces the incumbent as the industry...
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Innovation, Product-Cycle Trade, and the Cross-Country Distribution of Income
French, Scott - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2014
knowledge flows in order to understand how access to both foreign products and technologies, together, influences innovation …
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What Do Endogenous Growth Models Contribute?
Mare, Dave - EconWPA - 2004
Endogenous growth theory is one of the mainstream economics approaches to modelling economic growth. This paper provides a non-technical overview of some key strands of the endogenous growth theory (EGT) literature, providing references to key articles and texts. The intended audience is policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118696
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What Do Endogenous Growth Models Contribute?
Maré, David C. - EconWPA - 2005
Endogenous growth theory is one of the mainstream economics approaches to modelling economic growth. This paper provides a non-technical overview of some key strands of the endogenous growth theory (EGT) literature, providing references to key articles and texts. The intended audience is policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118754
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How Has the Portuguese Innovation Capability Evolved? Estimating a Time Series of the Stock of Technological Knowledge, 1960-2001
Teixeira, Aurora A. C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2004
The importance of promoting innovation has been elevated up to a status of official standard since the Lisbon European … innovation could be built. R&D has been a growing area of investigation namely at level of firms micro studies aimed at … uncovering firms’ innovation capability. At the macro level, the relevance of R&D for countries’ innovation capability has been …
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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2005
of product market regulation on mark- ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation, productivity and output …
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Relating entrepreneurship to economic growth
Karlsson, Charlie; Friis, Christian; Paulsson, Thomas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
The entrepreneur is an elusive character in economic theory due to the difficulty of providing an accurate description. It appears impossible to produce a single definition of entrepreneurship and most theoretical approaches yield operational difficulties. By the same token, most operational...
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