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grouping countries into those that have simultaneously experienced high growth rate in agricultural machinery and also in … the opposite side of the spectrum are countries with low growth in machinery and in agricultural output, and include for … machinery growth and agricultural output growth in Africa, which is a classical two - way relationship, not to be interpreted as …
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production activities in four research-intensive manufacturing sectors (chemicals and pharmaceuticals, motor vehicles, machinery …
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African farm systems remain the least mechanized of all continents. There were substantial state-led efforts to promote agricultural mechanization during the 1960s and 1970s, but these efforts failed, which led to a subsequent neglect of mechanization, both in practice and in academia. In...
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differ. Functional flexibility is strongly positively associated with product innovations. In contrast, numerical flexibility … allows firms to ?buy? innovations in the short run, but reduces innovative capacity in the longer run. …
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This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...
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reduction and green growth. This makes bioenergy innovations critical, especially in developing countries where many households … on the relevant actors, the tools and mechanisms specific to these actors for catalyzing innovations in the bioenergy for …
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This paper analyses the causal relationships in regional technological systems within a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework. Applying a data-driven identification strategy based on Independent Component Analysis, it shows how the regional growth dynamics of economic, research,...
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Technological innovations have driven economic development and improvement in living conditions throughout history … innovations. Consequently, several scholars have been persistently questioning the effectiveness of intervention models in …
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, knowledge and high technologies production as well as production of innovations and qualitative services. The human capital has …
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The working group, in valuing the scientific publications made in previous years on the quantification and measurement of the indicators of 'attraction' of a territory, tried to find a sustainable development model, verifing the effect that the recent introduction APEA (Industrial Areas...
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