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An Explanatory Analysis on the Impact of Industrial Cluster Strategy on Industry Growth in Zimbabwe
Mahuni, Kenneth - 2016
There has been a growing concern of developing industrial clusters in developed nations and emerging economies in the past two decades to strengthen economic growth and development. The concept of properly organised industrial clusters has not yet been heavily implemented in developing nations,...
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The Real Effects of Foreign Investment : Productivity and Growth
Petkova, Neviana - 2012
This paper studies the direct effect of foreign investment on target firm operating performance and growth. Foreign … investment into foreign direct investment and foreign institutional investment reveals that the results are attributable to … institutional investment. The effect is attenuated under weak corporate governance conditions, with foreign investment in business …
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Investment and Growth in the Middle East and North Africa
El-Erian, Mohamed A. - 2006
The paper considers investment and growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Notwithstanding cross …-country differences, investment as a whole has been too low, too heavily tilted toward the public sector, too highly dependent on external … influences, and less productive than in many other regions. Improving the region`s investment performance is critical if …
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Contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Country’s H-Index
Farhadi, Maryam - 2013
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development on country's scientific ranking as measured by H-index. Moreover, this study applies ICT development sub-indices including ICT Use, ICT Access and ICT skill to find the distinct effect of...
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Achieving High Growth in Policy-Dependent Industries : Differences between Startups and Corporate-Backed Ventures
Georgallis, Panayiotis (Panikos) - 2016
This research examines which firms achieve high growth in policy-dependent industries. Using the European solar photovoltaic industry as our empirical setting, we investigate the impact of policy support on the growth of independent startups and corporate-backed ventures operating across...
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Optimal Time Allocation for Process Improvement and Growth for Entrepreneurs
Yoo, Onesun Steve - 2013
For many growth-oriented entrepreneurial firms, the entrepreneur's time is one of the more salient resource constraint. Classifying the entrepreneurs' activities into four categories based on their revenue-related or process-related impact and short-term or long-term effects, we present a...
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Economic Growth and Internet Usage Impact on Publication Productivity Among ASEAN's and World's Best Universities
Gholizadeh, Hossein; Salehi, Hadi; Embi, Mohamed Amin; … - 2014
Measuring the number of papers which are published each year, publication productivity is the factor which shows the reputation of universities and countries. However, the effect of growing economy and using internet on the publication productivity in Asian countries has not been discovered yet....
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Relationship Among Economic Growth, Internet Usage and Publication Productivity : Comparison Among ASEAN and World's Best Countries
Gholizadeh, Hossein; Salehi, Hadi; Embi, Mohamed Amin; … - 2014
Publication productivity, as measured by the number of papers, has been regarded as one of the main indicators of reputation of countries and institutions. Nevertheless, the relationship among research publications, economic growth and World Wide Web in ASEAN countries is still unclear. The main...
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A Comprehensive Comparison of Educational Growth within Four Different Developing Countries between 1990 and 2012
Shakiba, Masoud; Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Danaee, Mahmoud; … - 2016
Educational growth is a fundamental infrastructure factor required to achieve sustainable development. Therefore, evaluation and measurement of educational growth is essential for establishing a development road map. Because of this, there are many organizations and databases that work to...
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Virtual R&D Teams : A Potential Growth of Education-Industry Collaboration
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2012
With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to...
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