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. Relying on cross-industry differences in the use of patents, we exploit firm-level variation in exposure to India's patent …
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. Relying on cross-industry differences in the use of patents, we exploit firm-level variation in exposure to India's patent …
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conserving biodiversity for at least two reasons. First, beyond bioprospecting, patents would seem only tangentially relevant to … biodiversity loss by those who assume that economic growth and environmental protection are mutually antithetical. However, patents … can indeed benefit biodiversity. This article illustrates how patents can combat each of the major threats to biodiversity …
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This paper presents preliminary results from a survey of R&D-performer industrial firms located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The inspiration for this research comes from the Yale Survey (Klevorick et all, 1995) and from the Carnegie Mellon Survey (Cohen et all, 2002), for these Surveys...
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innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to …
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This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the definition of systems of innovation used in the literature to discuss the systems of innovation in the Arab region. We explain that the two common characteristics of poor Arab regional systems of innovation is...
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The rate of technical change that is characterising both the telecommunications and the computer industry has been a major driver of the evolution of a close and stable system into an open and dynamic one. The introduction of a cluster of new technologies has originated significant changes...
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This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the definition of systems of innovation used in the literature to examine the existence, characteristics and implications of the regional systems of innovation in the Arab region. We examine three hypotheses, that the...
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African countries lag clearly behind developed countries when it comes to accumulating technological capabilities, upgrading and catching up. Also, firms in least developed countries are characterised by very low levels of absorptive capacity. It is therefore crucial to understand how this...
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This paper discusses the implications of the adoption of the National Innovation Systems approach for innovation policy. It starts by positioning the 'systemic' approach against other theoretical approaches, such as neoclassical theories. The authors argue that the adoption of one or the other...
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