The paper provides quantitative estimates of the productive capacities of the countries in the Asia- Pacific region and their evolution in the past 25 years. It updates the results for 2009 presented in the ESCAP’s Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2011 and details the...

Service networks can be considered to be open innovation systems. It has led to research on the structure of these networks, concentrating on the static network topology and its effect on innovation. However, the research misses the changes of network positions over time. In this paper, we...

International trade is considered a vehicle for technology diffusion, which in turn can induce productivity growth. Particularly, trade may give domestic firms access to a larger variety and/or better quality of intermediate or capital inputs in which new technologies are embodied. However, the...

This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of household behavior. It shows that the goal of evolutionary economics is to improve upon neoclassical economics by incorporating more realistic and empirically grounded...

We relate technological adoption (of different technologies) with income inequality. We discovered that some technologies such as aviation, cell phones, electric production, internet, telephone, and TV are skill-complementary in raising inequality. We constructed standardized indexes of...

This article examines trends and patterns of intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Asia, with a focus on the potential for integrating production processes among countries in the region through further trade and investment policy reforms. The empirical evidence pieced together...

While explaining cluster internal impacts on cluster development, cluster life cycle theory fails to explain the influence of cluster external factors. Based on a multiscalar approach, this study investigates factors causing change within an agritech cluster applying a qualitative approach. Main...

Bu çalışma, Türkiye’de üniversiteler ve sanayi arasındaki ilişkilerin yoğunluğunu ortaya koyarken firmaların üniversiteler ile işbirliği yapma eğilimini etkileyen temel faktörleri araştırmayı ve bunları tartışmayı amaçlamaktadır. Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu’nun 2009...

This article deals with the problems of formation and development of high-tech sector in the world, Russia and its regions. Opportunities and limits for formation of modern high-tech mode in industrial region are reviewed. Practical realizations of innovation resonance methodology in the Middle...

The realization of investments into the long-run growth rate of GDP requires the institutions of industrial policy, which would ensure search and implementation of its effective recipes. Such institutions and recipes are discussed in the article. Principles of effective governance for...