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Governance Innovations for Access to Basic Services in Urban Slums
Rufin, Carlos - 2016
With rapid urbanization on a global scale, poverty is increasingly becoming an urban phenomenon. A key component of urban poverty in developing countries is inadequate access to basic services, so understanding the institutional setting for basic service provision is key to addressing this...
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Windfall Gains or Eco-Innovation? ‘Green' Evolution in the Swedish Innovation System
Rånge, Max; Sandberg, Mikael - 2014
climate gas emission and the shift to non-fossil energy in Sweden; what types of organisations are behind the shift to non …-fossil sources of energy has not led to verifiable decreases in green-house gas emissions. Public ownership is the single most …
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Do Organizational Forms matter? An Econometric Analysis of Innovativeness in the German Wastewater Sector
Tauchmann, Harald; Clausen, Hartmut - 2004
In the German wastewater sector, innovations are often regarded to be the key to both more efficient service provision and reduction of environmental and health-related problems. However, it is unclear what factors foster these innovations. One possible candidate factor is increased competition...
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The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 : Structure and Effects
Vedachalam, Sridhar - 2017
Many US municipalities confront serious challenges due to aging water and wastewater infrastructure. Many systems require immediate repairs, upgrades, and replacement, but available funding is scarce. Readily available low-interest financing is of great help to such municipalities. The Water...
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Shifts in Gas Market Governance : Path-Dependent Institutional Innovation in the Netherlands
Couwenberg, Oscar - 2015
Around the turn of the century, the gas market in the Netherlands underwent a drastic shift in governance. Although the … gas value chain was initially designed as a natural monopoly, it was dismantled by introducing competition on the basis of … efficiently with the new governance arrangement. In the Netherlands, gas market governance basically shifted from public …
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Nineteenth century London water supply: Processes of innovation and improvement
Tynan, Nicola - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 26 (2013) 1, pp. 73-91
Public health concerns played a major role in driving the shift from private to government ownership of water works in Britain and the US. Poor water quality is one of the criticisms made of the eight water companies providing piped water to London during the nineteenth century. Critics argued...
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Do Organizational Forms Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Innovativeness in the German Wastewater Sector
Tauchmann, Harald; Clausen, Hartmut - 2005
In the German wastewater sector, innovations are often regarded to be the key to both more efficient service provision and reduction of environmental and health-related problems. However, it is unclear what factors foster these innovations. One possible candidate factor is increased competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068360
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Mobile Phone Innovation and Technology-Driven Exports in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
The study investigates how education, scientific output and the internet complement mobile phone penetration to affect technology commodity exports in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following main findings are...
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Trade and Innovation in Global Networks Regional Policy Implications, a Think Piece
Ernst, Dieter - 2016
This Think Piece explores how integration into international trade through global networks of production (GPNs) and innovation (GINs) might affect a region's innovation capacity. As regions across the globe are progressively integrated into those global networks – some certainly more than...
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Promoting SMEs As Suppliers in Public Procurement : Would It Lead to Innovation?
Rolfstam, Max - 2018
Purpose: The purpose of the article is to examine the justification for encouraging SME involvement in public procurement, as a means to stimulate innovation.Design/methodology/approach: By applying a post-positivistic/non-disciplinary approach the paper combines a narrative literature review of...
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