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In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in levels of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...
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Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
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The subject of this article is the application of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) to Africa's cultural economy, and its implications for development. Drawing on extensive research, including field work in Africa and interviews with key people in the field, the study explores the concept,...
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This paper employs a new global panel data set on innovation related variables to examine patterns of R&D investment …
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Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech...
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This paper bridges two approaches to assess national innovation performance based on European Innovation Scoreboard … is on analysing the innovation performance of the Baltic States – small countries with similar post-socialist path … dependence. Our aim is to explore what factors have been most influential in developing the different levels of innovation …
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Macedonia is experiencing constrains in relation to science, technology and innovation policies which are similar to … a brief overview of the triple helix model of innovation. It also provides for a critical analysis of the Macedonian … reality in terms of innovation. More specifically, the paper analyzes data on R&D in the private and public sector and the …
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Insufficient competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in Serbia can be significantly improved by a system of business associations through clusters, business incubators and technology parks. This connection contributes to the growth and development of not only the cluster members, but has...
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Despite a considerable body of research and gathering information on advanced technologies, there is still a study gap concerning its importance from the perspective of international competitiveness. Therefore, a question arises: what affects the competitive potential and how does it contribute...
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