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FDI Policies and Catching-Up
Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - In: Journal of Applied Economic Sciences XIII (2019) 7(61), pp. 1821-1853
The dynamic effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Portugal allowed for a structural shift in exports towards technology-intensive activities. However, since 2000, several factors, largely triggered by the global financial crisis, led to a drop in industrial output along with a reduction in FDI...
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Public Policies, Innovation and Convergence
Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2018
Since the mid-twentieth century, the Portuguese economy converged vis-à-vis with the EU average, due to backwardness advantages. At the same time, the dynamic effects of Foreign Direct Investment allowed for a structural shift in exports towards technology-intensive activities. However, in the...
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Financial development and innovation in China: Evidence from the provincial data
Hanley, Aoife; Liu, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - 2011
China, using a more recent provincial dataset and more sophisticated panel data estimation techniques than previous studies …
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Carbon policy in a high-growth economy: The case of China
Bretschger, Lucas; Zhang, Lin - 2014
it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China. To quantify these costs we develop a general …
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The Role of Small Firms in China's Technology Development
Lundin, Nannan; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Ping, He; Qian, Jinchang - 2007
of S&T indicators for small-, medium-, and large-sized manufacturing firms in China in 2000 and 2004. Our results suggest …
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Special Section 301: US interference with the design and implementation of national patent laws
Correa, Carlos M. - 2020
The continuous application of Special Section 301 by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) undermines the rule of law as a fundamental principle of a multilateral system based on the sovereign equality of states and the respect for international law. Interference with...
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The effects of privatization on R&D investments and patent productivity
Munari, Federico; Sobrero, Maurizio - 2002
Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a …'s principal-agent structure following privatization, and incentives to invest in R&D and to patent. We compare the pre and post … privatization R&D effort and patenting behavior of 35 companies that were fully or partially privatized in 9 European countries …
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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?
Peters, Bettina; Lööf, Hans; Janz, Norbert - 2003
Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing number of national firm level studies on the...
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Building BRICS: 2-Stage DEA analysis of R&D efficiency
Cai, Yuezhou; Hanley, Aoife - 2012
Should inputs such as bank finance affect innovation in BRICS vs. developed countries similarly? Arguably these elasticities may depend on a country's economic progress (Gerschenkron, 1962; Liu and White, 2001). Applying a combination of DEA and Tobit to a sample of 22 countries, we show how...
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How important is industry-specific managerial experience for innovative firm performance?
Balsmeier, Benjamin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014
This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of different institutional environments. Based on firm-level data from 27 Central and Eastern European countries we identify a robust positive relationship between...
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