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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395778
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Outsourcing, offshoring and innovation : evidence from firmlevel data for emerging economies
Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - 2013
and to introduce new products and upgrade existing products. The effect of offshoring on R&D spending is significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009782441
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Innovation in the New ICT Ecosystem
Fransman, Martin - 2009
The widespread adoption of the Internet has transformed the ICT Sector, giving birth to what has been referred to as the New ICT Ecosystem. But how does this ecosystem work and what changes it over time? These questions are explored in this paper, using some of the insights of Schumpeterian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210156
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The role of ICT in smart specialization of EU regions
Dziembała, Małgorzata; Talar, Sylwia - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 6, pp. 1512-1530
The aim of the paper is to answer the overriding question what is the role of ICT in implementation of smart specialization (SS) in EU regions (NUTS2 level)? This role can be dual and ICT is considered in this study both as an invention which has led to the emergence of new sector, and from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257334
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Culture, Innovation, and Economic Development : The Case of the South Indian ICT Clusters
Täube, Florian A. - 2014
The Indian software industry has often been cited as an example of a 'role model' for other developing countries trying to catch up, or leapfrog certain stages of industrial development. Having started with basic programming services India has climbed the value chain in IT industries. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029087
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Innovation, R&D and productivity in the Costa Rican ICT sector : a case study
Monge González, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - 2010
This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of...
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Beyond "dependent development" in a high-tech industry? The interplay between domestic institutions and transnational sectoral governance in the trajectories of emerging Polish IT firms
Lechowski, Grzegorz - 2018
The present study investigates the relatively successful development of the homegrown IT industry in Poland since the early 1990s. The case is theoretically interesting because it runs counter to the dominant perspective on the economic systems in postcommunist Central Europe, which emphasizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918261
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Proximities and Innovation : Evidence from the Indian it Industry in Bangalore
Täube, Florian - 2015
Much has been written on the success of the Indian software industry, enumerating systemic factors like first-class higher education and research institutions, both public and private; low labour costs, stimulating (state) policies etc. However, although most studies analyzing the 'Indian'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070947
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ICT, collaboration, and science-based innovation : evidence from BITNET
Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2020
Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304309