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The aim of this article is to analyse the process of technology regulation as a sub-system in the National System of … interest involved in the regulation of technology. Then, by analysing with the experience of regulating biotechnology in … respective regulation models. This discussion turns to the governance of science and technology as a fundamental element of …
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-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no … agreement on precisely how this happens, exactly which institutions matter, and little aggregate evidence has been produced to … support any particular hypothesis. This paper will review the equivocating evidence for domestic institutions explanations of …
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This paper examines recent attempts to rehabilitate pre-modern craft guilds as efficient economic institutions …
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-skilled workers, caused mainly by computerization and related forms of advanced technology, explain both the declining wages of low … been established between the recent rise in unemployment and the presence of strong wage-setting institutions and social … alternative account might take that places less weight on technology driven demand shifts and greater weight on the effects of …
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We examine trends in wage inequality in the US and other countries over the past four decades. We show that there has been a secular increase in the 90-50 wage differential in the US and the UK since the late 1970s. By contrast the 50-10 differential rose mainly in the 1980s and flattened or...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the combination of institutional factors and technology advances as … environment approach accepting group attitudes towards payment choices as a consequence of institutional pressure and technology … institutional environment and technology development in retail payment system decisions of newly acceded countries. …
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This presidential address to the Association for Evolutionary Economics was delivered at the annual meeting in San Diego, California, on January 5, 2013.
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institutions and stagnant incomes suggests that the role of these factors may be secondary. …
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This paper examines the strength of embedding systemic and institutional support,firm-level technological capabilities and the relationship between the two in Brazil, India and South Africa. Despite Brazil and South Africa enjoying stronger exposure to external markets, firms in these countries...
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The health of the world’s population—including those in the poorest countries—has improved more in the past 100 years than ever before. The improvement is largely a result of the development and spread of cheap, effective technologies (such as vaccines). Other factors, such as national...
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