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recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …
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We study the diffusion of a capital intensive technology among a fishing community in south India and analyze the …
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Both China and India, the emerging giants in Asia, have achieved significant economic development in recent years …. China has enjoyed a high annual GDP growth rate of 10 per cent and India has achieved an annual GDP growth rate of 6 per … cent since 1981. Decomposing China and India’s GDP growth from 1981 to 2004 into the three factors’ contribution reveals …
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Although there is growing evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the formation and growth of firms, both the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations...
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The clean development mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol may induce a technological change in developing countries. As an alternative to the CDM-regime, developing countries may accept a (generous) cap on their own emissions, let domestic producers invest in new efficient technologies, and...
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This paper shows how organizational, technical, and environmental factors affected firm decisions to adopt Internet … technologies during the early years of the commercialization of the Internet. Organizations that had made prior investments in … client/server networks had a higher likelihood of Internet adoption, however investments in proprietary or platform …
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This paper focuses on the relationship between technological innovation and international trade. In particular, the … effect of technological achievement on exports is studied. In order to measure technological innovation, the technological … classified into four groups according to their level of technological innovation: Leaders, Potential Leaders, Dynamic Adopters …
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(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …
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change, and in Part 3, we focus on issues related to the empirical analysis of technology innovation and diffusion. Finally …
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Most existing empirical work on technology diffusion assumes technologies to remain constant throughout the diffusion process. However, many consumer technologies improve significantly over time. Using data on the characteristics of new mobile handsets over a ten-year period and controlling for...
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