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Chapter 3 Horizontal Innovation in the Theory of Growth and Development
Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2005
such applications, a key role is played by complementarities in the process of innovation. …
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Chapter 25. Patent Statistics as an Innovation Indicator
Nagaoka, Sadao; Motohashi, Kazuyuki; Goto, Akira - 2010
This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … surveys such as the “innovation survey” of firms and the inventor survey. They have deepened our understanding of the …
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Chapter 22. The Economics of Innovation and Technical Change in Agriculture
Pardey, Philip G.; Alston, Julian M.; Ruttan, Vernon W. - 2010
Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter … mean that the nature and extent of market failures in the provision of agricultural research and innovation differ from …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago …
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Chapter 3. Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics as Evolutionary Processes
Dosi, Giovanni; Nelson, Richard R. - 2010
in industries where technological and organizational innovation is important. Indeed a large literature has grown up on … ways they evolve over time. Another domain concerns the nature of competition in such industries, wherein innovation and … briefly flag some fundamental aspects of economic growth and development as an innovation-driven evolutionary process. …
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Innovation and employment growth : evidence from manufacturing firms in Africa
Okumu, Ibrahim Mike; Bbaale, Edward; Guloba, Madina Mwagale - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 8 (2019) 7, pp. 1-27
This paper estimates the association between innovation and employment growth among manufacturing firms in Africa. The … paper uses a cross-sectional World Bank Enterprise Survey dataset in which innovation is categorised as product innovation … and process innovation. Results from the pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation are more efficient compared to IV …
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ICT and resilience in times of crisis: evidence from cross-country micro moments data
Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 28 (2019) 8, pp. 759-774
ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICT-intensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more...
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Competitive Strategy and Productivity Growth
Vasile, Dragos - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting 3 (2006) 3, pp. 71-80
The most of the industrial countries have experienced productivity slowdown, which is a serious concern of policy-makers. The study focuses on a strategy of enhancing the framework conditions of the productivity growth through competition. Its positive effect on both static and dynamic...
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China’s Great Convergence and Beyond
Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 333-362
A recent wave of economic research has studied the transformation of China from a poor country in the 1970s to a middle-income economy today. Based on this literature, we discuss the factors driving China’s development process. We provide a historical account of China’s rise, fall, and...
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INNOVATION VERSUS INCOME CONVERGENCE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. IS THERE A CORRELATION?
Cristina, Jude; Monica, Pop Silaghi - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 72-79
economic growth in the region were not appropriate for a long run growth. Innovation is a key source of competitiveness and a … convergence in terms of GDP and the convergence in terms of innovation for the CEEC. Based on yearly Eurostat data for the period … 1998-2008, we quantify the progress of each of the 10 CEEC both in closing the income gap and the innovation gap. We then …
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The innovation gap between the Polish economy and the European Union
Dworak, Edyta - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 3, pp. 63-73
aimed at estimating the innovation gap between Poland and the European Union countries on the basis of the Summary … Innovation Index (SII), which was developed by the European Commission within the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) in the … years 2010-2018. It reviewed the literature on the innovativeness of economies and the innovation gap. Descriptive analysis …
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