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innovation, either to reduce production costs for a given output, to create a new product or service, or to deliver products to …
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This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …
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Cointegration techniques are applied to a model of induced innovation based on the two-stage Constant Elasticity of … price shocks. Thus, the Induced Innovation Hypothesis (IIH) may explain long-run transformations like the mechanical and …
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pursue a fairly rigorous ''make'' policy in the early days of a potentially disruptive innovation. Other studies prescribe …
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This paper presents a quantitative research with two main directions: (1) to determine the strength of a possible association between the consumers’ expectations from the companies and their willingness to be actively involved in the transition to green economy and (2) to establish the degree...
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While investors are advised to diversify in order to manage risk, developing countries are advised instead to liberalise their trade regimes and specialise according to their current comparative advantage. This study uses 67 regions of the GTAP database to investigate the effects of unilateral...
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How best to assess trade and industrial policy in developing countries is a controversial question that unlocks a host of modelling complexities. Large computable general-equilibrium (CGE) models dominate many economic policy debates, but recent developments in the field have demonstrated that...
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Any attempt to model an economy requires foundational assumptions about the relations between prices, values and the distribution of wealth. These assumptions exert a profound influence over the results of any model. Unfortunately, there are few areas in economics as vexed as the theory of...
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regulations, exchange rate and price instability.This project report uses Zimbabwe as a case study. Zimbabwe’s history is analysed … in Zimbabwe and Africa to choose policies that will maximise FDI and thereby help to reduce poverty throughout the …
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research method used was a qualitative case study of Air Zimbabwe which is currently operating in a hyperinflationary economy …
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