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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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This work assesses innovation diffusion models and their application in marketing management. Its two principal aims … are: (1) to give an overview of existing innovation diffusion models and (2) to develop a new and improved model. A new … classification approach is proposed. The classification methodology bases on typical assumptions made in innovation diffusion models …
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A plethora of literature exists on irrigation development. However, only a few studies analyse the distributional issues associated with irrigation induced technological changes (IITC) in the context of commodity markets. Furthermore, these studies deal with only the theoretical arguments and to...
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on farm mechanization. The rates and directions of biased technological change based on the induced innovation theory are … of unauthorized workers. Unlike previous studies of induced innovation, this paper develops a new theoretical and … empirical model of induced innovation using a profit maximization approach. The contribution of the profit maximization approach …
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The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...
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Sound energy and environmental policies require reliable forecasts of production and pollution, as well as supply response to policy actions. In this study, we describe a model for forecasting long-term production and pollution in the offshore oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico under...
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