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This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa. Efficient conversion pathways, coupled with biomass from waste or high-yielding energy crops, reduces both the costs of biofuels production and the environmental impacts....
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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,...
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An important role of education - and the resultant accumulation of human capital - for a less-developed economy is to … education, the accumulation of physical capital and technological progress. In the model, investment in education and the … technology diffusion and the expansion of the technology frontier. The allocation of effort to education, the optimal savings …
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This paper reviews differences between countries in innovation, entrepreneurship, economic development and … innovation to catch up with USA and Asia with its fast rising industrial power. While areas as North Eastern Europe and Peoples … these differences with industrial production being located in China, but innovation, marketing and management in the Baltic …
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United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The … apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation? A model is introduced in which … equilibrium in which innovating is rational though suboptimal, without premium on innovation being a real economic profit. The …
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the level of competitiveness and innovation. This was a prerequisite for the study to assess the competitive position of …
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the national system of agricultural innovation in Brazil, the study shows the dynamic of technological development related … science into technological innovation. Finally, different policies to promote technological innovation are discussed. …
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The purpose of the present paper is to describe the role of uncertainty and technical change in an environmental context. Which impact does ecological uncertainty have on physical and R&D investments' decisions? How are pollution trajectories modified when uncertainty is taken into account? To...
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the national system of agricultural innovation in Brazil, the study shows the dynamic of technological development related … science into technological innovation. Finally, different policies to promote technological innovation are discussed …. -- Agricultural technology ; technological change ; innovation public policies …
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