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Free trade agreements (FTAs) have been proliferating in Asia for more than a decade. International fragmentation of production and the resultant cross-border production networks have been growing for a much longer period. Although FTAs are not necessary for the formation of production networks,...
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capital, development of technical institutions, and public policies in support of enterprise development and innovation, have … working of a well integrated national innovation system. They seem to be instead, path, or process, dependent, and determined …
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The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....
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of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …
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The concept of an "international production network" captures the spread of broader systems of international production which cut across different stages of the value chain but which may, or may not, involve ownership of equity stakes. The concept allows us to analyze the globalization...
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Patent data provide a rich set of information which can be used for comparative studies and trend analysis. The paper presents a systematic overview of the most appropriate tools methodologies that are available for determining the technological specialization of countries. Such analysis...
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When are technological laggards more likely to try to catch up with leaders? We offer empirical evidence on firm-level data of plant investments in the TFT-LCD panel industry, where technological competition has been intense and dynamic. We find that the followers' level of technology has a...
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As a form of crowdsourcing, idea competitions offer a mechanism to engage larger groups in innovation activities. While … community. We describe how an internal idea competition in a large company has evolved over time into a much broader innovation … innovation and corporate entrepreneurship …
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This paper examines how strategic alliances to create and use standards affect economic growth and development. The explanation of the link from standards to economic growth and development is through the effects of standards on the incentives to perform industrial research and development...
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innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual … of seized goods related to digital technology companies is imported from Asia. 51% of these are imported from China, 41 …% comes from Hong Kong, China, 3% from Singapore. Other economies of provenance account each for less than 1% of the seizures …
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