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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011
How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323949
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Capacites d'innovation : le capital de savoir, gage de survie et de croissance des entreprises
Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
Le present document decrit les constatations tirees d'un programme de recherche visant a souligner l'importance des competences qui decoulent des investissements dans l'actif incorporel pour le processus de croissance des entreprises. Le programme comportait deux parties. Premierement, des bases...
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Innovation Capabilities: The Knowledge Capital Behind the Survival and Growth of Firms
Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process of competencies that arise from investments in intangible assets. The program has consisted of two parts. First, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695637
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Social policies and R&D subsidies: Impact on inequality, unemployment, growth and the tax burden
Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - In: International Journal of Manpower 29 (2008) July, pp. 239-262
Purpose – The paper seeks to analyse the impact of different public policies on inequality, unemployment, growth and … inequality, low unemployment and a low tax burden. The Nordic model combines high growth, low inequality and low unemployment … long-term growth is paid for by high unemployment. Research limitations/implications – The model could be extended by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977790
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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The Analysis of the Influence of Foreign Direct Investment on Polish Economy in 1996-2010 using VECM Methodology
Marona, Bartlomiej; Bieniek, Agnieszka - In: Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Ekonomia 44 (2013) 2, pp. 333-350
attention to: GDP, export, import, research and development expenditure and unemployment. In order to fulfill objectives of this …
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R&D and Productivity in German Manufacturing Firms
Harhoff, Dietmar - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 6 (1998) 1, pp. 29-50
This papcr uses a new firm panel data set to explore the relationship between R&D and productivity in German manufacturing firms for the period from 1979 to 1989. The results confirm the view that K&D is an important determinant of productivity growth. In the cross-section, the elasticity of...
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R&D and productivity growth: Evidence from the UK
Kafouros, Mario - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 14 (2005) 6, pp. 479-497
Although the econometric evaluation of R&D has attracted wide interest in many countries, it has not attracted much in the UK. The main objective of this paper is to fill this void, i.e., to estimate the impact of R&D on productivity growth of the UK manufacturing sector. However, there are some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009200623
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In Search of Complementarity in Innovation Strategy: Internal R& D and External Knowledge Acquisition
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 1, pp. 68-82
existence of complementarity. We use our empirical methodology to analyze complementarity between innovation activities … external knowledge acquisition are complementary innovation activities, but that the degree of complementarity is sensitive to … research centers as an information source for the innovation process--as an important contextual variable affecting …
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