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In view of the risk of a slowdown in potential growth and the already extensive implementation of monetary and fiscal stabilisation policies following the financial crisis, the structural policies that are likely to boost growth are at the heart of economic policy debates.
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This paper uses panel data to examine the effects of foreign presence on firm level productivity in the Kenyan … that foreign firms dominated in virtually all the economic activities, including productivity performance. The analysis of … productivity determinants using a technologically profound approach produced a statistically significant role played by foreign …
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La inteligencia estratégica es un concepto tradicionalmente empleado en contextos militares, de defensa e incluso como «secreto gubernamental», aunque existen tímidas aplicaciones de índole académica y administrativa. El presente artículo realiza una propuesta conceptual del término...
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We construct a model where incumbents can either acquire basic innovations from entrepreneurs, or wait and acquire developed innovations from entrepreneurial firms supported by venture capitalists. We show that venture-backed entrepreneurial firms have an incentive to overinvest in development...
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The article examines three key aspects of the relationship between innovation and industry evolution: the analysis of the links among actors within a sectoral system view and the related research challenges; the modeling of industry evolution that takes into account the specificities of...
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This article analyzes the cooperative strategies of firms with different technological competencies within the framework of a two-stage Cournot duopoly. We assume the existence of a fixed cooperation cost and that technological spillovers depend on firms? competencies. We show that for an...
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Cloud-Computing umschreibt einen fundamentalen Wandel im Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT). Zunehmend werden Softwareanwendungen, aber auch Hardwarefunktionen wie Speicherplatz und Rechenkapazität nicht mehr zur dauerhaften Nutzung an einem lokalen Computer...
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Compte tenu du risque d’affaiblissement de la croissance potentielle et de la mobilisation déjà très forte des politiques conjoncturelles après la crise financière, les politiques structurelles susceptibles de dynamiser la croissance sont au centre des débats de politique économique.
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The economic value of upstream research outcomes has raised increasing attention. Not only are these outcomes central to the development of many innovations, but they are also the object of many transactions in technology. This note discusses a few representative papers that try to better...
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Conflicting trends confound the pharmaceutical industry. The productivity of pharmaceutical innovation has declined in …
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