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The Role of Regional Knowledge Sources for Innovation: An Empirical Assessment
Slavtchev, Viktor; Fritsch, Michael - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2005
innovation while the mere size of the universities is unimportant. Differences in the effect on innovative output can be found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207049
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The Missing Middle
Krueger, Anne O. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence, and argue, that stunning as India’s success is, the potential – and need – is for still more reform and more rapid growth. 8 percent is a good rate of growth, but many are destined needlessly to be left behind for years to...
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Total factor productivity effects of interregional knowledge spillovers in manufacturing industries across Europe
Scherngell, Thomas; Fischer, Manfred M.; Reismann, Martin - In: Romanian Journal of Regional Science 1 (2007) 1, pp. 1-16
The objective of this study is to identify knowledge spillovers that spread across regions in Europe and vary in magnitude for different industries. The study uses a panel of 203 NUTS-2 regions covering the 15 pre-2004 EU-member-states to estimate the impact over the period 1998-2003, and...
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Proceedings of an International Workshop held at Balai Penelitian T ernak Ciawi-Bogor, Indonesia 2nd February 1984: Shrub Legume Research in Indonesia and Australia
Tangendjaja, Budi - Australian Centre for International Agricultural … - 1984
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Damned by Place, then by Politics: Spatial Disadvantage and the Housing Policy-research Interface
Atkinson, Rowland; Jacobs, Keith - In: International Journal of Housing Policy 10 (2010) 2, pp. 155-171
and its links to research evidence. Although our paper uses the example of Australia, the arguments presented are also …
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Analysis of the Impact of CIMMYT Research on the Australian Wheat Industry
Brennan, John P.; Quade, Kathryn J. - Economics Research, NSW Primary Industries - 2004
Mexico for developing countries have provided spillover benefits to Australia. Varieties developed from those genetic … materials have resulted in yield increases in Australia. CIMMYT’s success in developing countries has also reduced the world … price for wheat. While the lower prices affect returns in Australia, the increased yields in Australia from the CIMMYT …
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Developments in the Structure of the Australian Financial System
Donovan, Bernadette; Gorajek, Adam - In: RBA Bulletin (2011) June, pp. 29-40
Some countries’ financial systems have undergone significant changes in response to the global financial crisis. While Australia’s financial system also experienced a variety of pressures and changes as a result of the crisis, the overall effect was much less severe than in some...
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Plant Pathology in Western Australia: The Contributions of an Australian Woman Scientist
ALLEN, NESSY - In: Prometheus 15 (1997) 3, pp. 387-398
Very few women after the second World War made agricultural science their first career choice. Olga May Goss, however, in her 35 years in the Western Australian Department of Agriculture, saved more than one industry from ruin, thus contributing in no small measure to the economic prosperity of...
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Australian Framework for the Commercialisation of University Scientific Research
Collier, Alan - In: Prometheus 25 (2007) 1, pp. 51-68
Australia spends proportionally more on university R&D, particularly when compared with business expenditure on R … commercialisation of Australian university research results is vital if Australia is to obtain the best economic results from its … which university research commercialisation is conducted in Australia in order to identify the key components of the …
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Responding to Shocks: Australia's Institutions and Policies
McLean, Ian W. - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 2010
The current economic crisis has taught another generation of Australians that their economy remains vulnerable to negative external shocks, as it has been since the depression of the early 1840s. So it is unsurprising that shocks and crises figure prominently in the economic history literature,...
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