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A Dynamic North-South Model of Demand-Induced Product Cycles
Föllmi, Reto; Hanslin, Sandra; Kohler, Andreas - 2012
This paper presents a dynamic North-South general equilibrium model with non- homothetic preferences. Innovation takes place in the rich North while firms in the poor South at random imitate products manufactured in the North. The model is able to generate endogenous product cycles as described...
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Innovative Capacities of Shipbuilding Organizations Manufacturing Composite Ships
Šugar, Violeta; Zanze, Josip - 2021
During the transitional period at the end of the 20th century, Croatian small composite shipbuilding (SCS) had merely 27 models. Still, at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, this innovative industry showed resilience and readiness to adapt to the new business conditions and created...
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Top Team Demographics, Innovation And Business Performance: Findings From English Firms And Cities, 2008-9
Nathan, Max - 2013
High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...
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Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology
Ernest, Miguelez - 2014
This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of high-skilled individuals ? i.e., inventors ? on international technological collaborations. By means of gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive activity between a group of industrialized...
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Towards the alternative measurement: Discovering the relationships between technology adoption and quality of life in Indonesia
Rohman, Ibrahim Kholilul; Bohlin, Erik - 2011
Indonesia, observing the relationships between the experience to technology (the length of mobile phone ownership) and … technology adoption (internet access) in affecting quality of life (QOL) at individual level. The QOL index is proxied by two … education-type equation (Card, 2001) to see the impact of experience to technology and internet access on the QOL index. The …
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Revisiting the Impact of ICT to the Tourism Development
Mihajlović, Iris; Strugar, Ivan - 2015
years. Information and communication technology influence on global scale on tourism development, and tourism development …
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Spanish Public Policies towards the Promotion of Cloud Computing and Digital Services for SMEs
Serrano Calle, Silvia; Pérez Martínez, Jorge; Frías … - 2016
transcend technology and impact over the digital ecosystem, with influences over supply and demand. The paper identifies the …
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Structural Change, Aggregate Growth And Government Services
Stijepic, Denis; Wagner, Helmut - 2015
Recent literature studies structural change and aggregate dynamics in neoclassical multi-sector growth models. A central aspect of this literature is the explanation of Kaldor-Kuznets-stylized-facts , which state that massive structural change takes place while aggregate-dynamics are relatively...
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Crucial for Modern Sector Development? The Role of Exports and Institutions in Developing Countries
Grundmann, Rainer; Gries, Thomas - 2015
Over the past decades there has been ample evidence that a manufacturing sector plays an important role in overall development. In East Asia, recent job creation in industry has lifted large parts of the population to higher income levels. However, while this connection is well supported by...
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Heterogeneous Immigrants and Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Language Skills
Lücke, Matthias; Stöhr, Tobias - 2015
We estimate a gravity model for bilateral FDI out-stocks from panel data for OECD reporting countries with bilateral and year fixed effects. With this demanding test, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of the two countries have few...
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