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Technological change, employment generation and multinationals: a case study of a foreign firm and a local multinational in India.

Lall, S - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983

ILO pub. Working paper on the impact of multinational enterprises on technological change and employment creation, comprising a case study of a foreign subsidiary and a local firm in India - discusses theoretical issues, size of enterprise, research and development, innovations, backward and...

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Market structure, industrial organisation and technological development: the case of the Japanese electronics-based nc-machine tool industry.

Watanabe, S - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983

electronics Innovation on small scale industry, the international division of labour and on developing countries. Bibliography and …

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Technology imports and indigenous technological capacity building: the zimbabwean case.

DB, Ndlela - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1987

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2013

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting...

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Research, higher education and innovation: redesigning multi-level governance within Europe in a period of crisis

Ritzen, Jo; Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

In this paper we present a vision for the course Europe should take in its research and higher education policies in order to fully live up to the expectations of its citizens to provide a safe, comfortable, affluent and sustainable environment in this period of considerable financial restraint...

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Innovativity: A comparison across seven European countries

Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

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Buy, Keep or Sell: Economic Growth and the Market for Ideas

Akcigit, Ufuk; Celik, Murat Alp; Greenwood, Jeremy - Economie d'Avant Garde - 2013

An endogenous growth model is developed where each period firms invest in researching and developing new ideas. An idea increases a firm's productivity. By how much depends on how central the idea is to a firm's activity. Ideas can be bought and sold on a market for patents. A firm can sell an...

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Survey of Recent Innovations in Aromatic Rice

Napasintuwong, Orachos - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

This paper provides situations of aromatic rice demand, and international standards. The history and recent developments of traditional and evolved aromatic rice varieties, namely Basmati rice and Jasmine rice, are reviewed. The emerging aromatic rice innovations from developed countries such as...

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Welfare Gains from Wood Preservatives Research

Seldon, Barry J.; Hyde, William F. - In: Journal of Agricultural Economics Research (1991) 1

The economic productivity of publicly funded wood preservatives research from 1950 to 1980 exemplifies public research in the forest product industries. We find a high internal rate of return for wood preservatives, nearly 300 percent. The research investments would not have been made by private...

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Innovation for economic performance: the case of Latin American firms

Crespi, Gustavo; Arias-Ortiz, Elena; Tacsir, Ezequiel; … - In: PharmacoEconomics 4 (2014) 1, pp. 31-50

In this paper, a wide range of innovation indicators are analyzed in order to describe the innovation behavior of … Surveys define innovation rates as the share of firms introducing product and process innovations. The survey also measures … nature of the innovation process in the region. Statistics about the performance of LAC firms are provided using different …

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