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Corruption, the Shadow Economy and Innovation in Spanish Regions
González-Fernández, Marcos - 2019
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of corruption and the shadow economy on innovation in the Spanish regions between 2000 and 2012. For this purpose, we use different proxies to approximate corruption and the shadow economy. We find evidence that corruption negatively influences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868937
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Key features of the first phase of the national cluster program in Russia
Kutsenko, Evgeniy; Meissner, Dirk - 2013
Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for clusters helps to take into account regional peculiarities and engage the most innovative local actors into the process of innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575677
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Crisis and conversion of industrial port complex : the case of Gdansk (Poland)
Lorek, Maria - 2015
The Interference of liberal principles and the reintroduction of a market economy have changed the structure and the organization of the productive system of centrally planned and administered countries (NOVE, 1981; ANDREFF, 2007). The new forms of industrial organization, which are the source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479443
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The People's Republic of China's small and medium enterprise development strategies in the context of a national innovation system
Yang, Tracy Su-chin (contributor);  … - 2006
With deregulation and globalization, and the direct impact of these developments on economies worldwide, it is necessary for authorities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to consider an approach that would further attune its economic engine toward sustained growth. This paper argues that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387699
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A Contractual Analysis of State versus Private Ownership
Jiang, Kun - 2009
This paper provides a unique contractual analysis of privatization from a state-owned company to a privately-owned company. Using a contractual approach, we analyze the advantages and disadvantages of private ownership versus state ownership under various circumstances. Our analyses focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156639
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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the Beeps Surveys in Transition Economies
Mitra, Pradeep - 2009
sources of finance. The scale of restructuring and innovation activity is as high or higher in transition economies as in …This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … to firms, and how firms respond to the economic environment by restructuring; we are able to do this because the BEEPS …
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China : From Imitator to Innovator?
Zhan, Feng - 2019
We examine the effects of that government policy change and assess how it has impacted firm innovation. To address potential endogeneity concerns, we use the policy change as a quasi-natural experiment and explain the exogenously caused variations. We also use a “difference-in-differences”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902827
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Empirical Evidence on Relationships between Ex Ante Innovation Pursuit and Post-M&A Performance in the Vietnamese M&A Industry, 2005-2012
Vuong, Quan Hoang - 2019
This research aims to communicate new results of empirical investigations to learn about the relationship between determination of controlling an acquired firm's capital, assets and brand versus its capability of innovation and ex post performance of the rising Vietnamese M&A industry in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012905427
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Foreign Direct Investments Induced Innovation? A Case Study − Macedonia
Apostolov, Mico - 2016
relationship between industry-government-university in the ‘knowledge society'. As of the beginning of the transition process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002542
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Productive Versus Innovative Inefficiency in China's State Enterprises
Wu, Yanbing - 2015
This paper proposes the new hypothesis that the loss of innovative efficiency is greater than the loss of productive efficiency in Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). SOE reform in China has been able to achieve substantial improvements in SOE productive efficiency by using supervision and...
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