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highly dynamic, multi-technology and globally distributed industry it is a challenge to identify and quantify its appearance … in regional clusters. This challenge is even greater for its critically important innovation activities, including … approach of 'paper trail' of the industry's innovation process as revealed in patents and scientific publications. By using …
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In recent years, firms have considerably decentralized their research and development (R&D) activities. Subsidiaries of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) are now among the top performers of R&D in many EU and non-EU countries. Specifically, MNE affiliates account for around 20% of total...
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. Adopting new production technologies and realizing synergy effects might allow cost reduction, product innovation and product … upgrading. Even if GVCs represent a rich environment for innovation activities, the extent to which knowledge is created and … heterogeneous innovation capacities for the firms involved. Differences in the forms of governance underlying buyer …
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) evolutionary approach of industrial processes and changes that are embedded in the systems of innovation approach. The aim of this … most widespread technology: the inoculation of industrial strains. We base our analysis on the identification of the set of …
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Does trade improve institutions and contribute to long run growth? I develop a theory of trade, in which trade liberalization provides incentive to change institutions in two ways. On the one hand, trade leads to specialization according to comparative advantage, expanding the industries that do...
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technology tools, which provide geoinformation - namely information made up with spatial, geographical substance - to users in a …
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The article deals with the problem of West European and Nordic countries small economies as well as ultra-small autonomous territories of Alands and Faeroes island's development. The latter are considered as the <<competitive sub-peripheries> areas due to the special industrial organization development, stimulated by the...</<competitive>
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determined by two main factors: its own effort to develop new technologies and some external technology pool. The ability to … internalize the latter into the own productivity growth depends again on many factors like: various technology diffusion channels …&D, but due to the common market have presumably benefited a lot from the technology pool of the neighbouring high-income EU …
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Recently, there has been wide interest in the "economics" of population aging. Demographic change has crucial consequences for economic behavior; it e.g. implies that consumption and investment decisions vary over the life-cycle. The latter has important implications for economic growth, whereas...
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The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the geographical diffusion of photovoltaic installations in Germany quantitatively and to test if preexisting photovoltaic systems stimulate further installations nearby; thus we investigate to which extent knowledge flows depend on geographic...
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