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Regional effects of a cluster-oriented policy measure : the case of the InnoRegio program in Germany

Brenner, Thomas; Emmrich, Carsten; Schlump, Charlotte - 2013

Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in … East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities …

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Competitiveness and clusters : implications for a new European growth strategy

Ketels, Christian H. - 2015

This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline. A first section discusses summarizes key findings from the previous research...

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Financing patterns of innovative SMEs and the perception of innovation barriers in Germany

Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - 2014

conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. In Germany, there is a diversity of overall well …-funded technology-neutral and technology-specific programs providing grants to R&D and innovation projects. Different types of SMEs … access public funding for R&D and innovation activities to varying degrees. Using an extensive sample of 2,700 German SMEs …

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Impact evaluation of innovation and linkage development programs in Costa Rica : the cases of PROPYME and CR Provee

Monge González, Ricardo; Rodriguez-Alvarez, Juan Antonio - 2013

This paper estimates the impact of two productive development programs (PDPs) in Costa Rica: PROPYME and CR Provee. The first seeks to increase the capacity of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) to innovate, and the second aims to increase backward linkages between Costa Rican SMEs and...

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Productive development policies in Argentina

Sánchez, Gabriel; Butler, Inés; Rozemberg, Ricardo - 2011

In contrast to the limited impact of aggregate-level productive development policies (PDPs) in Argentina, micro-level PDPs in several sectors have proven highly successful. This study seeks to understand how these PDPs succeeded in a challenging environment, what kinds of mechanisms were...

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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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The political economy of productivity : the case of Chile

Aninat, Cristóbal; Benavente H., José Miguel; … - 2010

This paper analyzes the political economy of productivity-related policymaking in Chile following a political transaction cost model (Spiller and Tommasi, 2003; Murillo et al., 2008). The main findings indicate that i) the Chilean policymaking process (PMP) was successful in the 1990s in...

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A new policy framework for Myanmar's SME development

Abe, Masato; Dutta, Madhurjya Kumar - 2014

development services, innovation and technology, market access, and cluster development. These recommendations are based on …

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Russia's experience of foresight implementation in global value chain research

Meshkova, Tatiana A.; Moiseichev, Evgenii IA. - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-35

methodology based on the latest trend to combine the approaches of global value chain and national innovation system research. The … with regional and national innovation-based development tendencies become of crucial importance. Application of foresight …

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Fessehaie, Judith; Rustomjee, Zavareh; Kaziboni, Lauralyn - 2016

This paper explores the linkages between the national systems of innovation of Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and … reveals four individual national systems of innovation, with different outcomes in terms of engineering skills development …, technical vocational education and training, research and development, innovation capabilities, and competitiveness of the …

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