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Diffusion Trajectories of Emerging Sciences in Malaysian R&D System

Wong, Chan-Yuan; Thirucelvam, Kanagasundram; Ratnavelu, … - 2009

In the last two decades, Malaysia has demonstrated significant economic progress and achieved an impressive growth performance in manufacturing exports as a result of its industrial development policies. In order to achieve higher-value-added sector, Research and Development (R & D) activities...

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A critical evaluation of aspects of the tourism information commodity marketplace in Australia and some implications for innovation in tourism

Taylor, Andrew James - 2005

There is a growing body of literature which discusses the importance of systems of innovation (SOI) to modern economies. Systems which are innovative are characterised by organisations and institutions which identify weaknesses in current technologies, pursue new ideas through research and...

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Moving from a catching up position towards international leadership: lessons from the coffee sector in Costa Rica

Orozco, Jeffrey; Diaz, Rafael - 2008

The contribution of any specific sector to the development of a country evolves alongthe time. In some periods a country can move from a catching up towards a leadingposition with respect other countries. The factors explaining this change of position isrelated to the evolution of the system of...

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Canada Reaching Out? A Study of Collaboration between Canada and the Emerging Economies in Health Biotechnology

Ray, Monali - 2011

This dissertation discusses research on Canada’s collaboration with emerging economies, specifically Brazil and India, in the field of health biotechnology. In recent years Canada has shown interest in engaging with emerging economies including Brazil and India in S&T fields. However, little...

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"While a Storm is Raging on the Open Sea": Regional Development in a Knowledge-based Economy

Leydesdorff, Loet - 2006

The Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations is elaborated into a systemic model that accounts for interactions among three dimensions. By distinguishing between the respective micro-operations, this model enables us to recombine the â Mode 2â thesis of a new production of...

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Patents and Antitrust: Application to Adjacent Markets

Economides, Nicholas; Herbert, WILLIAM N.; Calvo and … - NYU Stern School of Business - 2007

We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patentholder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … market. The present scheme forawarding patents cannot judge when the issuance of a patent will lead tothe appropriate balance … competence to ensure that patents do not cause economic stagnationand harm by permitting a patent holder to extend its monopoly …

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NOT QUITE UP TO SCRATCH: AN EXAMINATION OF FAILURE, PERSISTENCE, AND ‘LIVING DEAD’ OUTCOMES FOR WIRELESS START-UPS

Ghosh, Anindya - 2011

, through patents, exposes new firms to undesired spillovers. The second essay exploits asymmetric effects on success and …

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Intellectual Property Strategies and the Returns to R&D

Arora, Ashish; Ceccagnoli, Marco; Cohen, Wesley - 2000

Although the prospect of obtaining patent protection is believed to encourage R&D investments and thus the rate of inventive activity, there is little by way of direct evidence to support this belief. We use original data from the 1994 Carnegie Mellon survey on the appropriation of R&D in the US...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Crop-Improving R&D under Adaptive Destruction

Yerokhin, Oleg; Moschini, GianCarlo - 2007

This paper studies how the strength of intellectual property rights (IPRs) affects investments in biological innovations when the value of an innovation is stochastically reduced to zero because of the evolution of pest resistance. We frame the problem as a research and development (R&D)...

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Pollution Regulation and the Efficiency Gains from Technological Innovation

Parry, Ian W.H. - 1997

Previous studies suggest that emissions taxes are more efficient at stimulating the development of improved pollution abatement technologies than other policy instruments, such as (non-auctioned) tradable emissions permits. We present results from a competitive model that cast some doubt on the...

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