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Futures of automobile industry and challenges on sustainable development and mobility
Moniz, António; Paulos, Margarida Ramires - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Portugal had only very few foresight exercises on the automobile sector, and the most recent one was a survey held in a project on work organisation systems in the automobile industry, its recent historical paths and the special strategies of location of companies (the WorTiS project). This...
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Public Underwriting of Private Debt: The Prospect of Industry Targeting
Lefebvre, Rock; Simonova, Elena - Certified General Accountants Association of Canada - CGA - 2009
This paper ascertains the nature and foreseeable effectiveness of some of stimulus measures introduced by Canada's federal government to stem the 2008 financial crisis. To that end, the paper considers three distinct elements which form one logical continuum. Starting with the identification of...
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Corruption and innovation: a grease or sand relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2008
This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263875
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The BioRegio-contest: a new approach to technology policy and its regional consequences
Dohse, Dirk - 1998
German technology policy has undergone a remarkable change during the last years. The first thing to mention is that technology policy in Germany takes a broader view now, focussing not only on knowledge creation (i.e. the invention process per se) but also on knowledge diffusion and faster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265627
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Corruption and Innovation: A Grease or Sand relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864504
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Internet Advertising after Sorrell v. IMS Health : A Discussion on Privacy and the First Amendment
Cole, Agatha - 2012
This Article examines the scope of Sorrell v. IMS Health, its potential impact on legislative efforts to enact comprehensive consumer privacy legislation, and its implications for targeted Internet advertising. Part I provides a general overview of ad-targeting technology, emphasizing the...
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Corruption and Innovation : A Grease or Sand Relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2008
This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772435
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Greasing the Wheels of Change : Bribery, Institutions, and New Product Introductions in Emerging Markets
Krammer, Sorin - 2017
Despite the consensus on the negative country-level implications of corruption, its consequences for firms are less understood. This study examines the effect of bribery on the innovative performance of firms in emerging markets as reflected by new product introductions. I argue that bribery may...
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In the Shadow of Violence : A New Perspective on Development
North, Douglass C. - 2015
This paper extends the North, Wallis, and Weingast (2009) framework for understanding the problems of development. Our approach distinguishes two development problems that are normally conflated. Most approaches to development focus on the second problem, namely, the transition of societies from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016711
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China’s Great Convergence and Beyond
Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 333-362
A recent wave of economic research has studied the transformation of China from a poor country in the 1970s to a middle …-income economy today. Based on this literature, we discuss the factors driving China’s development process. We provide a historical … account of China’s rise, fall, and resurgence. We then discuss the stylized facts associated with China’s growth process and …
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