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Internationalisierung der Unternehmensforschung : neue Standorte gewinnen an Bedeutung

Belitz, Heike - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 18, pp. 3-9

Deutsche und ausländische Unternehmen haben ihre Forschungsund Entwicklungsinvestitionen in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren beständig gesteigert. Mit gut 45 Milliarden Euro lagen die Aufwendungen im Jahr 2009 um ein Drittel über dem Niveau von 2001. Während die ausländischen Unternehmen...

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Generating economic growth : an analytical survey

Thompson, Maria - In: The open economics journal 1 (2008), pp. 25-36

The theoretical richness and variety of the new growth literature can make it difficult to capture the essence of growth models. With this paper, we wish to provide one possible integrating view of the nature of the growth generating processes. Revisiting the models that constitute the core of...

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Lifestyle production : transformation from manufacturing to knowledge based production using innovation

Dilling-Hansen, Mogens; Jensen, Susanne - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 35-54

increased market size and the competition. Innovation is a prerequisite for a successful transformation process and this paper … innovate; innovation is a prerequisite for firm survival in the four industries. -- transformation ; lifestyle production … ; innovation …

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The network connections among enterprises

Kozioł-Nadolna, Katarzyna - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 1, pp. 62-72

. Remaining in an innovation network has a lot of potential advantages regarding an innovation process: access to a bigger … database of ideas, sharing risk, sharing innovation costs, access to new markets and technologies, synergy effect. Such … briefly. -- innovations ; innovation network ; transnational corporations …

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Knowledge-Based Economic Development: Mass Media and the Weightless Economy

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

We examine associations of mass media and information and communicationstechnologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on some economicdevelopment outcomes. We .nd that several mass media and ICT penetration variablesare negatively associated with three development outcomes: corruption,...

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The Interaction Between Technology Adoption and TradeWhen Firms are Heterogeneous

Unel, Bulent - Louisiana State University <Baton Rouge, La.> / E. J. … - 2010

This paper develops a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms tostudy the interaction between technology adoption and trade in a world of two countriesfacing different technology adoption costs. It shows that a reduction in the technologyadoption cost in one country increases the...

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Religious Market Theory vs. Secularization: The Role of ReligiousDiversity Revisited

Opfinger, Matthias - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2011

Iannaccone’s (1991) seminal paper assigns basic market principles to the market for religion. Ina competitive market with high religious diversity the level of overall religiosity should increase. TheSecularization Hypothesis suggests that the establishment of new churches casts doubt on the...

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Experimentally-validated survey evidence on individual riskattitudes in rural Thailand

Hardeweg, Bernd; Menkhoff, Lukas; Waibel, Hermann - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2011

This study validates a survey-based measure of general risk attitude by an incentivecompatible experiment among more than 900 participants in rural Thailand. The surveymeasure of self-assessed risk attitude provides a useful approximation of the experimentallyderived risk attitude. This holds...

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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES

Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

In Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), escape from poverty and convergence to livingstandards of more advanced economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate growth and job creation. So far,however,...

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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemploymentand Informality in Developing Economies

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality andunemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to thesame externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal andinformal firms have monopoly...

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