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Over the last century and a half, global technological leadership has shifted from Great Britain to the United States. In this paper we argue that China is positioning itself to assume global leadership in technology within the coming few decades. We identify three sources of competitive...
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Much has been said lately about entrepreneurship, so it seems important to leave here some personal analysis on this topic. The issues outlined here result from a work in about a year in which because a personal and professional obligations it was doing some research on these issues. This is an...
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the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …
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The chapter argues that the next generation of regional innovation policy is a broad based innovation policy. Such a … policy means complementing a science and technology driven policy with a more demandbased, user-driven innovation policy …. Finland has pioneered such a policy in its new innovation strategy. This reorientation is in line with the innovation system …
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The chapter argues that the next generation of regional innovation policy is a broad based innovation policy. Such a … policy means complementing a science and technology driven policy with a more demandbased, user-driven innovation policy …. Finland has pioneered such a policy in its new innovation strategy. This reorientation is in line with the innovation system …
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This paper develops a growth model to provide a theoretical explanation of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). Paper explains how EKC is shaped with economic development for a given technology. The EKC result arises in two ways – it can be observed from a single technology that matures and...
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Les économistes démontrent que la sortie de crise en France et dans le monde ne peut passer que par une politique d'innovation …
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This paper builds a two-country (North, South), two-sector (polluting, nonpolluting) trade model with directed technical change, examining whether unilateral environmental policies can ensure sustainable growth. The polluting good is produced with a clean and a dirty input. I show that a...
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms' competitiveness. Since … innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets …
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