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crucial for economic growth. Thus, investing in education, R&D and innovation is essential for a country's prospects for …
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Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
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Innovation arises from multilevel interactions. Many factors at various levels of aggregation chip in. Not only … for their success in the innovation process. Admittedly this has been recognized for a long time in the various … ?contextual? perspectives on geography of innovation, including the concepts of innovative (or creative) milieu, technology …
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the interdependencies of institutions of different types and spatial scales. It aims at developing a conceptual framework … institutional change and economic evolution in regions. The paper offers a review on how institutions have been conceptualised in … interdependencies between different types of institutions for institutional change as well as economic outcomes. The concept of …
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contribute to Chinese urbanization. Finally, we show that better institutions in Concessions facilitated the emergence of modern …
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, productivity, innovation activity, investment and trade at the country (Aron 2000; Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson, 2001; Hall and … Di Cataldo 2014; Ketterer and Rodríguez-Pose 2014). The quality of institutions also influences micro variables such as … line with previous research which underlines the importance of the quality of institutions at the regional level while it …
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are the main tool for innovation which leads in business development and growth and can reinforce the endogenous regional … / reallocation of the Greek Universities and Technological Institutions. In the empirical part of our paper, we try to identify … extracted from targeted questionnaires addressed both to Greek entrepreneurs and Greek universities ? Scientific Institutions …
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appearances (innovative management, innovation culture, innovative policy, and innovative factors) as well as the performance of …
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This paper presents a dynamic North-South general equilibrium model with non- homothetic preferences. Innovation takes …
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The aim of this paper is to present the role of institutional development in creating knowledge based economies which will further foster higher prospects for economic growth. A knowledge based economy is one that exploits knowledge to develop and maintain long-term economic growth. One of the...
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