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Globalization of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Implications for Innovation
Abrol, Dinesh; Prajapati, Pramod; Singh, Nidhi - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 3 (2011) 2, pp. 327-365
In this article we create an industry-wide metrics of innovation based on the characterization of learning potential of …&D directions and evaluation of innovation outcomes. Our purpose is to reflect on strategies adopted for learning, competence … building and innovation and for creating complementarities and linkages within India’s pharmaceutical industry during the post …
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Technological Learning and Innovation: Climbing a Tall Ladder
Canuto, Otaviano; Dutz, Mark; Reis, José Guilherme - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 21, pp. 1-8
As the global stock of ideas expands and diffuses across and within countries, technological learning is poised to … make a policy focus on technological learning and innovation more important than ever for developing countries. The note … innovation policy moving forward. Developing countries would benefit from an increased policy emphasis on technological learning …
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On India's plunge into Nanotechnology: What are good ways to catch-up?
Ramani, Shyama V.; Chowdhury, Nupur; Coronini, Roger; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
The present paper examines how a developing country like India is competing in the nanotechnology race. Our study shows …. India has clearly made a dent in terms of scientific publications (with the main focus being on nanomaterials), in the … in the interests of economic growth or social welfare that India's science and innovation, and intellectual property …
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Sources of Innovation and Technology Capability Development in the Indian Automobile Industry
Kale, Dinar - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 4 (2012) 2, pp. 121-150
In the last decade the Indian auto industry has shown increasing levels of technological sophistication and significant growth. The Indian auto industry consists of local firms with indigenous design and development capability, well established global brands and has marketing presence in Indian...
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On India's plunge into Nanotechnology: What are good ways to catch-up?
Ramani, Shyama V.; Chowdhury, Nupur; Coronini, Roger; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
The present paper examines how a developing country like India is competing in the nanotechnology race. Our study shows …. India has clearly made a dent in terms of scientific publications (with the main focus being on nanomaterials), in the … in the interests of economic growth or social welfare that India's science and innovation, and intellectual property …
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China's Government-Set Patent Targets and Performance Indicators: Boosting Numbers or Innovation?
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by 2015, within a wide range of Chinese policy documents. The analysis suggests there are weaknesses in certain targets due to the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent...
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Building absorptive capacity in less developed countries The case of Tanzania
Szogs, Astrid; Chaminade, Cristina; Azatyan, Ruzana - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008
African countries lag clearly behind developed countries when it comes to accumulating technological capabilities, upgrading and catching up. Also, firms in least developed countries are characterised by very low levels of absorptive capacity. It is therefore crucial to understand how this...
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R&D and financial systems: the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry
Malmberg, Claes - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008
This study investigates the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry from the 1960s to the mid 1990s. Various proxies for the rate of return of R&D (e.g. expected profit, sales and R&D productivity) as well as the availability of internal funding (proxied by past...
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Industrial dynamics and innovative pressure on energy - Sweden with European and Global outlooks
Kander, Astrid; Schön, Lennart - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2007
The focus in this paper is on industrial dynamics and its impact on energy systems.. We highlight some fundamental patterns of this long-term dynamics, using the Dahmenian concept ‘development blocks’, with ‘market widening’ and ‘market suction’, and discuss the implications for...
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Chapter 48 Agricultural Innovation: Investments and Incentives
Wright, Brian D.; Pardey, Philip G.; Nottenburg, Carol; … - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2533-2603). 2007
Investments in R&D and agricultural innovations have been fundamental to long-term economic growth worldwide. But global resource allocation has been uneven, with some developing countries closing in on developed-world scientific capacities, others regaining ground lost over the past decade or...
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