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Pricing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Impact on Canada's Competitiveness

Bataille, Chris; Dachis, Benjamin; Rivers, Nic - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2009) 280

There is a growing consensus that if serious action is to be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, a price must be applied to emissions. But how would Canada’s climate policy coexist with the rest of the world? And how would domestic industry be affected?

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MODELLING IN INNOVATION PROCESS

Pachura, Aneta - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2008) 10, pp. 39-39

demands constant market analyses as well as flexibility and organisationalefficiency. Theorising and modelling of innovation …

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Does private equity investment spur innovation? Evidence from Europe

Popov, Alexander; Roosenboom, Peter - European Central Bank - 2009

We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … funds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control for the standard determinants of innovation … aggregate (private equity plus R&D) industrial spending, PE accounts for as much as 12% of industrial innovation. We also …

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The evolution of markets and the revolution of industry: A unified theory of growth

Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen L. - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2009

expansion in the market, sow the seeds for process innovation and an economy’s take-off. We demonstrate this mechanism in a …

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Industrial district effects and innovation in the Tuscan shipbuilding industry

Lazzeretti, Luciana; Capone, Francesco - Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de … - 2009

to the debate on the effects of industrial clusters on innovation capacity. In particular, we would like to ascertain … whether the advantages of industrial districts in promoting innovation, as already revealed by literature (diffusion of … methodology. Next, in the identified clusters, we analyse three innovative networks financed in a policy to support innovation …

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R&D in SMEs: a paradox?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Vivarelli, Marco; Voigt, Peter - In: Small Business Economics 33 (2009) 1, pp. 3-11

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Innovation and productivity in SMEs: empirical evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - In: Small Business Economics 33 (2009) 1, pp. 13-33

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The roles of R&D in new firm growth

Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - In: Small Business Economics 33 (2009) 1, pp. 77-89

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Analysis of Barriers in the Transition toward Sustainable Mobility in the Netherlands

Farla, Jacco; Alkemade, Floortje; Suurs, Roald A.A. - Utrecht University, Department of Innovation Studies - 2009

The transition toward a sustainable transportation system in the Netherlands takes place in the context of the Dutch “Transition management policy framework”. We study four tech¬nological routes that the “Platform Sustainable Mobility” has selected for this goal: (1) hybridization of...

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Macroeconomic Conditions and Successful Commercialization

Webster, Elizabeth; Jensen, Paul H. - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2009

The commercialization of inventions is an investment, similar to spending on plant and equipment, and accordingly we would expect it to be affected by macroeconomic conditions. Using data on the commercialization activity from over 4000 inventors, we find evidence that macroeconomic conditions...

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