Similar Search Results

A model-based assessment of first-mover advantage and climate policy

Pollitt, Hector; Summerton, Philip; Klaassen, Ger - In: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 17 (2015) 2, pp. 299-312

This paper provides a model-based macroeconomic assessment of First-Mover Advantage (FMA) in environmental technologies, in which a European sector becomes world leader and captures the global market for a particular technology. The E3MG model is used to assess a set of scenarios where the FMA...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240960

Social Capital, Innovation and Economic Growth

Thompson, Maria - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2015

Multidisciplinary innovation is the engine of growth of an increasing number of economies. Innovation output depends … importance of social capital to the growth of an innovation economy. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241623

Giving ideas a chance: Systematic development of services in manufacturing industry

Strassl, Johann; Schicker, Günter; Grasser, Christian - University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden (OTH) - 2015

The purpose of this paper is to propose a service development process that is adapted to manufacturing companies and to discuss its implication for companies with a focus on product development and product sales. This paper looks at new service development (NSD) literature and argues for design...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241686

The poverty problem and the industrialization solution

Alvarez, Sharon; Barney, Jay; Newman, Arielle - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 32 (2015) 1, pp. 23-37

<Para ID="Par5">Despite decades of effort, abject poverty remains a serious problem in many countries around the world. The effects of five approaches to poverty alleviation—foreign aid, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, base of the pyramid initiatives, and the establishment of property rights among the...</para>

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241765

Entrepreneurship and poverty reduction: A case study of Yiwu, China

Si, Steven; Yu, Xuebao; Wu, Aiqi; Chen, Shouming; Chen, Song - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 32 (2015) 1, pp. 119-143

employs an in-depth case study of how poverty was reduced through entrepreneurship and innovation in the eastern Chinese city …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241772

The Effects of Internationalization on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence for Transition Economies

Boermans, Martijn; Roelfsema, Hein - In: Open Economies Review 26 (2015) 2, pp. 333-350

<Para ID="Par1">This study analyses how various internationalization modes affect innovation in ten transition … innovation, whereas exporting and FDI are associated with R&D spending and patenting. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241891

Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment: a comparison to regular business start-ups

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 165-190

innovation. Moreover, we show that expected deadweight effects related to start-up subsidies occur on a (much) lower scale than …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241903

Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

Huggins, Robert; Thompson, Piers - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 103-128

Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the … that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics … mediate the relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation-based regional growth. It is suggested that network dynamics …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241921

Public Support for Innovation in Russian Firms: Looking for Improvements in Corporate Performance Quality

Simachev, Yuri; Kuzyk, Mikhail; Feygina, Vera - In: International Advances in Economic Research 21 (2015) 1, pp. 13-31

<Para ID="Par1">This research focuses on the efficiency of Russia’s policy to foster innovation. We conduct an … 650 Russian industrial firms in 2012. The analysis shows that state support for innovation clearly targets successful … companies and does not target laggard or insider (i.e., partially state-owned) firms. Comparing innovation effects on firms with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242032

Is Capitalism Good for Women?

Cudd, Ann - In: Journal of Business Ethics 127 (2015) 4, pp. 761-770

This paper investigates an aspect of the question of whether capitalism can be defended as a morally legitimate economic system by asking whether capitalism serves progressive, feminist ends of freedom and gender equality. I argue that although capitalism is subject to critique for increasing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242119