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Innovation and knowledge spillovers in developing countries

Bascavusoglu, Elif - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the determinants of innovative activities in emerging countries, with particular attention to national, international and intersectoral knowledge spillovers. Our study concerns 16 emerging and 10 technology source countries, for the period...

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Trade, technology and skills: Evidence from Turkish microdata

Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - 2009

In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and the relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting, using a unique database comprising...

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Russian energy strategy in the Asia-Pacific: Implications for Australia

Buchanan, Elizabeth (contributor) - 2021

Given Australia's lack of energy security strategy, it is not surprising that the country is void of institutional … communication to the north to supply fuel and to export Australian coal and natural gas. Australia has entered the 2020s as the …-Pacific, with a view to determining the security implications for Australia. Russia is important for global energy security chains …

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Determinants of green innovation: The impact of internal and external knowledge

Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2012

Based on a comprehensive data set comprising 13 countries, 22 industries and a period of 30 years we investigate the impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and other than green technologies on green patent activities. It turned out that the internal green knowledge stock...

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Mapping crisis-era protectionism in the Asia Pacific region

Evenett, Simon J. - 2013

This paper provides an account of the resort in recent years by governments in the Asia Pacific region to discrimination against foreign commercial interests. As in previous systemic economic crises, policymakers altered the mix of discriminatory policies employed. This time around governments...

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The optimal transfer of capital and embodied technologies to developing countries

Hübler, Michael; Lontzek, Thomas S. - 2009

We study the North-South diffusion of technologies embodied in internationally mobile capital in a framework of intertemporal global welfare maximization. Convergence of the growth rates of technical change in the North and South always occurs in the long-run. However, the degree to which the...

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Globalization, technology transfer, and skill accumulation in low-income countries

Mayer, Jörg - 2001

Globalization has drastically improved access of technological latecomers to advanced technologies and provides a unique opportunity for low-income countries to raise per capita income. This paper shows that low-income countries as a group have in fact substantially increased the GDP-ratio of...

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Do competitively acquired funds induce public research institutions to behave efficiently?

Bolli, Thomas; Somogyi, Frank - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of public and private third-party funds on the effciency of departments of Swiss public research institutions. Estimating an output distance function assuming that labor is used to produce master students and scientific publications, we find no statistically...

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The design of licensing contracts: Chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and electrical engineering in imperial Germany

Burhop, Carsten; Lübbers, Thorsten - 2011

We investigate a sample of 180 technology licensing contracts closed by German chemical, pharmaceutical, and electrical engineering companies between 1880 and 1913. Our empirical results suggest that strategic behaviour seems to be relevant for the design of licensing contracts, whereas inventor...

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Technology transfer with moral hazard

Choi, Jay Pil - 1996

This paper develops an incomplete contract model of the licensing relationship that is susceptible to the moral hazard problem. The optimal contractual form of licensing derived in the model generates predictions that seem to be consistent with actual practice. For instance, the introduction of...

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