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Private Incentives to Innovate: Interplay of New Products and Brand-Name Reputation

Leheyda, Nina - 2008

This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...

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Bioenergy, food security and poverty reduction: Mitigating tradeoffs and promoting synergies along the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus

Mirzabaev, Alisher; Guta, Dawit; Goedecke, Jann; Gaur, Varun - 2014

reduction and green growth. This makes bioenergy innovations critical, especially in developing countries where many households … on the relevant actors, the tools and mechanisms specific to these actors for catalyzing innovations in the bioenergy for …

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Growth dynamics in regional systems of technological activities - A SVAR approach

Duschl, Matthias; Brenner, Thomas - 2013

This paper analyses the causal relationships in regional technological systems within a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework. Applying a data-driven identification strategy based on Independent Component Analysis, it shows how the regional growth dynamics of economic, research,...

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A critical review of the Follow-the-Innovation approach: Stakeholder collaboration and agricultural innovation development

Amankwah, Kwadwo; Shtaltovna, Anastasiya; Hornidge, … - 2015

Technological innovations have driven economic development and improvement in living conditions throughout history … innovations. Consequently, several scholars have been persistently questioning the effectiveness of intervention models in …

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Knowledge economy infrastructure formation in the northern regions of the Russian Federation

Zhideleva, Valentina; Sedusova, Natalia - 2015

, knowledge and high technologies production as well as production of innovations and qualitative services. The human capital has …

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Potential growth of productive areas ecologically equipped (APEA) adherens of the FICEI

Turina, Sandro; Confessore, Giuseppe; Turina, Maurizio; … - 2015

The working group, in valuing the scientific publications made in previous years on the quantification and measurement of the indicators of 'attraction' of a territory, tried to find a sustainable development model, verifing the effect that the recent introduction APEA (Industrial Areas...

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Openness and innovation within organizations: An empirical analysis of the transformation process of romanian enterprises

Baga, Tünde; Gebert, Diether - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 10 (2005) 2, pp. 107-130

In this study, the authors examine how societal and industrial sector-specific peculiarities moderate the translation of intra-organizational openness into innovativeness. A sample comprising N = 24 subsystems from privatized Romanian natural gas companies and N = 26 subsystems from privatized...

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Innovations in Russian industries: Conditions for implementation and impact on competitiveness

Gurkov, Igor - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 10 (2005) 3, pp. 218-246

innovations but also interconnections between technological and managerial innovations. We also determined the institutional … factors that affect the intensity of particular innovations, i.e. presence of foreign ownership, openness of local markets to … international competition and inclusion of companies into large corporations to/that foster innovations. At the same time, the …

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An Aggregate View of Macroeconomic Shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study Using Innovation Accounting

Coleman, Simeon - 2004

) model for these small open economies. Our finding that the real exchange rate innovations in the CFA franc zones are largely …

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The Transaction Costs Perspective on Standards as a Source of Trade and Productivity Growth

den Butter, Frank A.G.; Groot, Stefan P.T.; Lazrak, Faroek - 2007

This paper discusses the design, implementation and use of standards from the perspective of transaction costs economics. A proper design and implementation of standards may lead to a considerable reduction of transaction costs, which enhances trade and, consequently, economic welfare. A major...

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