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Labour-intensive industries, located in medium/high-cost areas are presently facing increasing low-cost competition and outsourcing with tremendous consequences at the regional employment level. The ability to react and technologically adjust to the challenges of this harder market conditions is...
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In Brazil, coffee is one of the most important crops, particularly regarding job creation and foreign exchange. Since its introduction in the country in 1727, in the North region, the coffee cultivation is spread over much of the Brazilian territory. Over nearly 300 years, coffee production has...
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The present article tries to explain how firms appropriate their investments in innovation activities. Thereby, not … sample of innovation active firms used in this analysis includes 2960 entities that were engaged in developing and …/or implementing a product or process innovation in the years 2010-2012. The results show that firms in the sample indicate high …
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patent-regime change on world-fair exhibits per capita, which we use as a proxy for non-patented innovation. We interpret … generation of innovation. …
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initial inventor on the one hand and overall innovation incentives on the other hand. We find that incomplete patent … protection can positively affect overall innovation incentives while maintaining the advantageousness of patent protection over …
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