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Blessing or curse: Impacts of the Brazilian Pre-Salt oil exploration

Magalhães, Aline Souza; Domingues, Edson Paulo - In: EconomiA 15 (2014) 3, pp. 343-362

of the Brazilian economy, especially the composition of the industry and exports. Similar consequences in the country of …

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The Brazilian exports of labor-intensive goods in the 2000s: An analysis using the Constant Market Share Method

Fligenspan, Flávio Benevett; Lélis, Marcos Tadeu Caputi; … - In: EconomiA 16 (2015) 1, pp. 128-144

This paper aims at analyzing international trade in labor-intensive sectors in the 2000s, with a special reference to the Brazilian case. Therefore, we use the constant market share analysis to compare several countries’ export performance. It was observed that Asian countries emerged...

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New approaches for improving energy efficiency in the Brazilian industry

De Mello Santana, Paulo Henrique; Bajay, Sérgio Valdir - In: Energy Reports 2 (2016), pp. 62-66

The Brazilian government has been promoting energy efficiency measures for industry since the eighties but with very … Brazilian government actions directed to overcome market barriers and improve energy efficiency in the local industry. The … of all energy efficiency programmes run by the Federal government. A large share of the Brazilian industry energy …

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Analysis of trade before and after the WTO: A case study of South Asia

Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Latif, Muhammad Ijaz - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 2 (2009), pp. 53-67

Trade stimulates economic growth as well as create employment. The basic principles (of the WTO) make the system economically more efficient and cut the production and marketing costs. It gives consumers more choice, and a broader range of qualities to choose from. These are the basic benefits...

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Technological catch-up and the role of universities: South Korea’s innovation-based growth explained through the Corporate Helix model

Cho, Myung-Hwan - In: Triple Helix 1 (2014) 1, pp. 1-20

Linkages between industry and university have become crucial for knowledge discovery and driving industrialization … technological catch-up during the double helix formation stage. Through the relationship triad POSTECH shares with the Industry and … industry and government to cultivate the efficacy of South Korea's national innovation system. The Corporate Helix model takes …

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Escaping the Resource Curse and the Dutch Disease? When and Why Norway Caught up with and Forged ahead of Its Neighbors

Larsen, Erling Røed - 2004

In the 1960s, Norway lagged behind its Scandinavian neighbors in the aggregate value of economic production per capita, as it had for decades. By the 1990s, Norway had caught up with and forged ahead of Denmark and Sweden. When and why did Norway catch up? The discovery and extraction of oil in...

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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand

Department of Petroleum Engineering

students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growthin industry employment … opportunities, which resulted in the department losing over half of its staff to industry. At the same time, the supply of local …A number of new initiatives were introduced, which included: bringing industry into the decision-making processes …

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Technology trends in econometric energy models: Ignorance or information

Boyd, G.; Kokkelenberg, E.; Ross, M. - 2008

Simple time trend variables in factor demand models can be statistically powerful variables, but may tell the researcher very little. Even more complex specification of technical change, e.g. factor biased, are still the economentrician's measure of ignorance'' about the shifts that occur in the...

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Government Services Information Infrastructure Management

Cavallini, J.S.; Aiken, R.J. - 2009

agency boundaries to interoperate more closely with industry and with the public to greatly improve the delivery of … the adoption and use of industry standards, and that provide a significant technology marketplace. …

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Evaluating the risk of industrial espionage

Bott, T.F. - 2009

A methodology for estimating the relative probabilities of different compromise paths for protected information by insider and visitor intelligence collectors has been developed based on an event-tree analysis of the intelligence collection operation. The analyst identifies target information...

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