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innovation framework. …
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In this paper we present a vision for the course Europe should take in its research and higher education policies in order to fully live up to the expectations of its citizens to provide a safe, comfortable, affluent and sustainable environment in this period of considerable financial restraint...
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In this paper, a wide range of innovation indicators are analysed in order to describe the innovation behaviour of … manufacturing firms in LAC using the recently released Enterprise Surveys 2010. The Enterprise Surveys define innovation rates as … understand the main characteristics of innovative firms and to gather new evidence with regard to the nature of the innovation …
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In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives in Quebec, using manufacturing firm data from 1997 to 2003 originating from R&D surveys, annual surveys of manufactures and administrative data. The estimated price elasticity of R&D is -0.10 in the short run and -0.14 in the long...
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its innovation system and the interplay between the firm and the non-firm sector. We argue that, in any economy, when … generated a sub-optimal outcome. Market forces did not result in the western-style innovation system, but a hybrid one, with …-down" supply-driven allocation of resources and a reliance on external (but domestic) network of sources for innovation and capital …
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This paper explores the self-organising principles of horizontally-integrated innovation networks. It isshown that such …, dynamic and highly non-linear processes. The paper argues thedevelopment of a self-organisation perspective of innovation … the micro-macro processes driving dynamic innovation systems.Section 1 of the paper identifies the four key principles of …
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Politicians understand that a conventional double dividend policy - defined asreduction of greenhouse gas emissions and unemployment through taxation of energy and CO2emissions and subsidization of wage costs - and the aim of keeping international competitivenessof all sectors intact may be...
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The Schumpeterian theory of long waves has given rise to an intense debate on the existenceof clusters of basic innovations. Silverberg and Lehnert have criticized the empirical part ofthis literature on several methodological accounts. In this paper, we propose the methodologyof Poisson...
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We extend an earlier model of innovation dynamics based on invasive percolation by adding endogenous R&D search by … the log-normal distribution are varied, the relative rates of aggregate innovation switches between the two regimes. The … SO regime has higher innovation rates, other things being equal, for lower means or higher standard deviations of the …
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This paper examines the importance of knowledge-skill complementarity in the process of contemporary economic growth. By analyzing Dutch manufacturing and carrying out an extensive spillover and wage inequality analysis, it is shown that knowledge-intensive sectors pay their high-skilled workers...
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