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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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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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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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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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Employee representation and innovation - disentangling the effect of legal and voluntary representation institutions in Germany
Kraft, Kornelius; Lammers, Alexander - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991969
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Innovation without growth? : exploring the (in)dependency of innovation on economic growth
Heyen, Nils B.; Zenker, Andrea; Aichinger, Heike; … - 2024
how dependent innovation is on economic growth and what effects a potential long-term economic stagnation or decline may … have on innovation processes and systems. We approach the subject from different angles using mixed methods. First, we … present a quantitative analysis of the linkages between economic growth and innovation activities on a sectoral level, based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014511707
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New regulatory challenges from cloud computing as a public utility perspective
Kosa, Zsuzsanna - 2011
is growing from the availability, affordability, safety and security of the ICT infrastructure. An innovation based, four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307270