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Business development and the growth of rural SMEs
Freshwater, David; Garcilazo-Corredera, José Enrique; … - 2019
The paper reviews the role of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of employment and economic growth in rural regions across a number of OECD geographies. It argues that SME creation is especially important for rural economic development and identified lessons for national level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132883
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Cross-country evidence on the contributions of research institutions to innovation
Paunov, Caroline; Borowiecki, Martin; El-Mallakh, Nevine - 2019
This paper presents preliminary evidence on the patenting activities of 21 200 research institutions - 20 091 higher education institutions (HEIs) and 1 109 public research institutes (PRIs) - for 36 OECD countries and China from 1992 to 2014. Our evidence, which builds on a database that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168868
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On the concentration of innovation in top cities in the digital age
Paunov, Caroline; Guellec, Dominique; El-Mallakh, Nevine; … - 2019
innovation in these cities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168905
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Productivity and innovation at the industry level : what role for global value chain integration?
Gál, Peter; Witheridge, William - 2019
countries is particularly productivity enhancing. We also find that GVC integration spurs greater domestic innovation activity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110993
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Achieving New Zealand's productivity potential
Conway, Paul - 2017
Productivity growth has slowed across most OECD economies since the mid-2000s. While important aspects of New Zealand’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long-run trend of poor productivity in New Zealand,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853625
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Trends in water-related technological innovation : insights from patent data
Leflaive, Xavier; Krieble, Ben; Smythe, Harry - 2020
Innovation has a role to play to mitigate water-related risks and to support the provision of water services on which … our well-being and sustainable development depend. Water-related innovation originate in a wide range of countries, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422651
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Drivers of farm performance : empirical country case studies
Sauer, Johannes; Moreddu, Catherine - 2020
structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249042
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The Social Uses of the Innovation Concept. A Qualitative Approach to the Discursive Logics for the Access to and Use of Information, Communication and Knowledge in Andalusia.
Rodríguez Victoriano, José Manuel; Wulff Barreiro, Enrique - 2010
In the semantic architecture of the society of the knowledge the innovation concept is the fundamental brick. It is an … technological innovation, in the European Union research laboratory, and in the Andalusian government organ dedicated to the … innovation, science and business. In the university, and the public research institutes area the main point is research. Three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279509
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The impact of regional and functional integration on the post-entry performance of knowledge intensive business service firms
Koch, Andreas; Strotmann, Harald - 2004
, innovation and user-producer interaction in the KIBS sector, functional and regional integration are particularly decisive for …-Classification: D21, J23, L80, O30 Keywords: Employment growth; Entrepreneurship; Entry; Innovation; Knowledge-intensive business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318984
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Entrepreneurship and Path Dependency in a Regional Context
Florkowski, Sabrina - 2010
A student of regional development can identify two general types of explanations for why some regions develop as they do. The first explanation relates to the emergence of innovative activities carried out by pioneering entrepreneurs that may transform the society and economy. In literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332338