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Exporting firms are typically the more productive firms in an economy. Based on this observation, policy makers typically enact policies to stimulate exportation by domestic firms. In this chapter, we argue that firms make productivity enhancing investments and as a result the more productive...
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The competitiveness of a country is the result of the competitiveness of its firms. The competitiveness of firms is partly determined by how their business models interact with the environment to produce offerings with added value. This chapter contributes to the reflection on Catalonia's...
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We report results of economic policy experiments carried out in the framework of the EURACE agent-based macroeconomic model featuring a distinct geographical dimension and heterogeneous workers with respect to skill types. Using a calibrated model able to replicate a range of stylized facts of...
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The aim of this paper is to estimate the effect of manufacturing Brazilian firms´ knowledge production on their conditional probability of internationalization. In this way, an empirical study using (i) microdata from World Bank Investment Climate, Brazil 2003 and (ii) nonlinear instrumental...
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transfer, especially as the majority of these countries attract only limited foreign direct investment. Drawing on innovation …
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This paper entitled "Patent as a motivation of starting a new entrepreneurial activity of high potential" based on a research that was held by the Greek Industrial Property Organization (O.B.I.), investigates the fate of Patents that the organization granted to residents of the country during...
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and find that smart grids need a coherent regulatory framework addressing grid services, grid technology innovation and … grid user participation to the ongoing grid innovation. The paper concludes with what appears to be a smart regulation for …
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The paper analyses the European Research Area policy (ERA) from the innovation perspective. The Lisbon Treaty gives the … implement the ERA policy on the basis of voluntary cooperation. The ERA and innovation are linked through the business sector R …
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strengthen competition, entrepreneurship and innovation would go a long way toward enhancing it. Recent competition policy … procedures. Recent reforms to the innovation policy framework are welcome but the focus on sectoral priority clusters will need … productivité par le renforcement de la concurrence, l'entrepreneuriat et l'innovation<BR>Le déclin de la croissance de la …
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National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although this has been recognized in the literature for a long time, a quantitative test that explicitly considers this hypothesis has been lacking. Using a World Bank datasets of about...
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