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THE ECONOMICS OF BIOSAFETY: IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Maredia, Mywish K. - 1998
risks of biotechnology products and "accident" costs to the society; increased predictability for a research organization of … research and development activities. Developing countries should balance these potential benefits with the tangible costs of … increase the research lag, production costs, transaction costs and marketing costs. Given the scarcity of human and physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445318
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Promotion in Marketing Strategies of Publishing Companies
Žemaitytė, Vilma - 2009
After the independence in the business of Lithuania, like in the publishing market, were introduced marketing … strategies. Publishing companies are specific commercial companies. They seek not only profit, but enlightenment, culture and … other social aims. Publishing companies for this reason use universal marketing mix. When supply overran demand, publishers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478971
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RESEARCH UPDATES
1987
Organization of scanner data for more effective usage in managerial decision-making, by Oral Capps, Jeffrey M. Thomas, and Don L. Long; Effects of entry and changes in demand on concentration in wholesale grocery markets, by Walter B. Epps and Charles Handy; U.S. fruit and vegetable processing...
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A Panel Data Approach to the Measurement of Technical Efficiency and its Determinants: Some Evidence from the Tunisian Agro-Food Industry
Lachaal, Lassaad; Chebil, Ali; Dhehibi, Boubaker - 2004
This study investigates firm level technical efficiency of production and its determinants in the Tunisian agro-food industry. To this end, a stochastic production frontier model, in which technical efficiency effects are assumed to be a function of firm-specific variables and time, is estimated...
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Spatial R&D Spillovers and Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000
The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that emphasize the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442319
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Do Energy Prices Induce Progress in Energy-Related Technology? An Empirical Study
Schmitz, Simon - 2001
Research efforts towards new energy sources and towards the efficiency of energy use will be vital to reducing CO2 …
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National and International Developments in Technology - Trends, Patterns and Implications for Policy
Koopmann, Georg; Munnich, Felix - 1999
Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. Deviations of individual OECD countries from the average R&D intensity reflect differences in industry structure as well as in sectoral R&D intensity. At the same time, the sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442406
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS: SOME LESSONS FROM THE PILOT TISSUE-CULTURE (TC) BANANA PRODUCTION PROMOTION PROJECT IN KENYA, 1997-2002
Mbogoh, Stephen G.; Wambugu, Florence M.; Wakhusama, Sam - 2003
This article is based on a socio-economic impact study of the introduction and adoption of tissue-culture (tc) technology in banana production in Kenya. It attempts to demonstrate that a prudent introduction and promotion of a new biotechnological innovation in farming can make a positive...
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Dual Technological Development in Botswana Agriculture - A Stochastic Input Distance Approach
Irz, Xavier T.; Hadley, David - 2003
To improve the welfare of the rural poor and keep them in the countryside, the government has been spending 40% of the value of agricultural GDP on agricultural support services. But can investment make smallholder agriculture prosperous in such adverse conditions? This paper derives an answer...
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AN APPLIATION OF THE STOCHASTIC LATENT VARIABLE APPROACH TO THE CORRECTION OF SECTOR LEVEL TFP CALCULATIONS IN THE FACE OF BIASED TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Bailey, Alastair; Irz, Xavier T.; Balcombe, Kelvin George - 2003
The measurement of the impact of technical change has received significant attention within the economics literature. One popular method of quantifying this impact of technical change is the use of growth accounting index numbers. However, in a recent article Nelson and Pack (1999) criticise the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442441