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Comesa and Sadc; Prospects and Challenges for Regional Trade Integration
Khandelwal, Padamja - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Regional integration has been seen in Africa as a means of encouraging trade and securing economies of scale. This paper examines in detail the prospects and challenges for trade expansion in the two most prominent arrangements in eastern and southern Africa: the Common Market for Eastern and...
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German geographical research on Japan
Flüchter, Winfried - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2000
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Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units
Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
also find that higher innovation levels and experience from the parent university are associated with higher efficiency …
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Assessing Technology-based Spin-offs from University Support Units
Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
higher levels of innovation and specific academic knowledge or experience related with the university of origin are …
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The Bright Side of Social Capital: How 'Bridging' Makes Italian Provinces More Innovative
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Gagliardi, Luisa; Percoco, Marco - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2011
Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature. Existing studies have failed to reach a …' social capital - based on weak ties - can be identified as the key driver of the process of innovation while 'bonding' social … capital is shown to be negative for innovation. Instrumental variable analysis makes it possible to identify clear causal …
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Social capital and the innovative performance of Italian provinces
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Gagliardi, Luisa; Percoco, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature due to the lack of consensus on the most … variable analysis makes it possible to identify clear causal links between social capital and innovation, suggesting that …
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A framework for innovation in a global NGO: building financial, institutional and programmatic sustainability
Kickul, Jill; Gundry, Lisa K. - In: International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development 5 (2013) 1, pp. 3-25
A case-based approach is presented to analyse a Universal NGO's framework in introducing new innovations related to its sustainability programme. The Universal NGO examined has a unique approach to sustainability wherein partnerships with local NGOs are formed to implement programmatic...
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Information and Communication Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening
Otto, Kate; Shekar, Meera; Herbst, Christopher H.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...
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Models and Methods of University Technology Transfer
Link, Albert N.; Bradley, Samantha R.; Hayter, … - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2013
This paper argues that a linear model of technology transfer is no longer sufficient, or perhaps even no longer relevant, to account for the nuances and complexities of the technology transfer process that characterizes the ongoing commercialization activities of universities. Shortcomings of...
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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer
Helmers, Christian; Hall, Bronwyn H. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
innovation and international technology transfer in general.  The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous.  We then … externalities, implies that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area …
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