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Creating space in the global economy: Building a high tech dream in Malaysia

Wong, Loong - In: Prometheus 21 (2003) 3, pp. 289-301

The globalisation of innovation has become a major issue in the discourses of economic development. There is a view that unfettered market forces will promote greater and better developmental outcomes and for this to happen, the state must play a minimalist role. There is the other view that...

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Open, Semi-Open and Closed Innovators: Towards an Explanation of Degree of Openness

Barge-Gil, Andres - In: Industry and Innovation 17 (2010) 6, pp. 577-607

There is much controversy in the literature over the relationship between the openness of firms' innovation strategies and firm characteristics such as size, R&D intensity and sector. We argue that the controversy arises because, both theoretically and empirically, only a binary, open vs....

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Do Business Subsidies Facilitate Employment Growth?

Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

We use data from 15508 Finnish companies with 10 or more employees for the years 2003-2008 to explore the relationship between employment growth and three endogenously determined business subsidy types (i.e. employment subsidy, R&D subsidy and other business subsidies). We find a positive...

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The geography of innovation : challenge to technology policy within regions

Fadairo, Muriel; Massard, Nadine - HAL - 2009

The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of knowledge externalities, in order to reveal their role in...

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Mowery, David C. - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 10, pp. 1703-1715

National defense represents a significant share of most OECD governments’ R&D budgets and an even higher share of their mission-oriented R&D spending. This public R&D investment has focused on research and innovation supporting defense missions, and in many cases the military services of these...

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Coming back home after the sun rises: Returnee entrepreneurs and growth of high tech industries

Kenney, Martin; Breznitz, Dan; Murphree, Michael - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 2, pp. 391-407

Recently, the role of returnees in the economic development of various East Asian nations has received much attention. The early literature on the relocation of the most highly trained individuals from a developing nation to a developed nation viewed the phenomena as a “brain drain.” Since...

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Regional innovation systems in emerging economies: evidence of system failures for innovation

Rodríguez, José Carlos; Navarro-Chávez, César L.; … - In: International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development 5 (2014) 4/5, pp. 384-404

There remain several unexplored questions in relation to the analysis of regional innovation systems (RISs). This is the case, for example, about the nature of some types of system failures that avoid developing innovations in regional economies. In this case, system failures may hinder the...

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Does academic consulting require any research? Examining the relationship between research funding and academic consulting

D'Este, D'Este,Pablo; Rentocchini, Rentocchini,Francesco; … - INGENIO - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between the sources of funding for research activities and the engagement of scientists in one specific type of knowledge transfer: academic consulting. By relying on a sample of 2603 individual faculty, from five Spanish universities, who have been...

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Mandates and the Incentives for Innovation

Clancy, Matthew; Moschini, GianCarlo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

One prominent feature of the US biofuels sector is its reliance on mandates to enforce use. The performance of this policy tool has been mixed, with corn-based ethanol production successfully meeting targets but cellulosic ethanol falling well short of them. A crucial difference in this setting...

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Technology Transfer And Technology Policy In A Developing Country

Ray, Saon - In: Journal of Developing Areas 46 (2012) 2, pp. 371-396

technological needs of the latter. A strict patent regime adopted by a developing country encourages the transfer of the latest … model in a welfare maximizing framework, we show that there are gains as well as losses from a stricter patent regime, which … underlines the case for an optimal technology policy that may involve a semi strong patent regime. …

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