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Measures of Science & Technology in Ecuador

José Luis, Massón-Guerra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

One of the structural problems in Latin-American has been the lower innovative capacity and lower generation of economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence of government’s incentives and strategies in order to be competitive inside the Knowledge Based...

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Regulation and Firm Perception, Eco-Innovation and Firm Performance

Doran, Justin; Ryan, Geraldine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

-eco-innovation on firm performance. The paper provides insights into the role government regulation can play in directing and … performance of eco-innovation while a knowledge augmented production function is used to assess the impact of eco-innovation on … firm performance. Findings - The findings suggest that regulation and customer perception can explain a firm‟s decision to …

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Determinants of initial technology adoption and intensification: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Waters, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

In this paper we examine determinants of initial adoption and subsequent intensification of corporate use of business practices employing the internet. In contrast to previous examinations that have looked at highest income countries, we study companies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Many...

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Maroc technologie et développement économique un modèle théorique

Jellal, Mohamed; Bouzahzah, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper proposes a model of reflection on the following fact: the Moroccan economy is not competitive and technological gap is wide between local industries and foreign firms. This observation leads us to organize this debate by offering a rigorous theoretical framework to better understand...

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Revisiting Import-Substituting Industrialisation in Post-War Brazil

Colistete, Renato P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post-war years and became more technologically sophisticated,...

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Technology, Trade Specialization and Development: Jumping to Technology Development Era

Mellati, Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Developing countries often are characterized as producers and exporters of a few types of natural resource based goods. Intuition dictates that these countries should change their strategy from being merely merchandise producers to technology developers in order to experience higher level of...

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Absorptive capacity and structural congruence: the binding constraints on the acquisition of technology--an analytical survey of the underlying issues

Das, Gouranga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Inextricable links between international trade, growth and role of knowledge-creation are well-established in the economics literature. The issues of creation of technology, its diffusion and actual adoption have been discussed on both theoretical and empirical planes. Effective assimilation of...

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Système National d’Innovation marocain

Bouoiyour, jamal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The aim of this paper is to describe the national innovation system (NIS) in Morocco. Technological inputs (R & D, number of researchers, number of students in science and technology etc.) and the institutional organization of research are discussed. INS in the Moroccan case is characterized by...

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Système National d’Innovation au Maroc

Bouoiyour, jamal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

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Technology policy: patent protection and industrial R&D subsidies in Turkey

Soyak, Alkan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

Some developing economies (especially East Asian Countries) have long imitated western technology. It means that these economies adopted an imitative attitude to new industrial technologies with regard to technology policies. Some changes recently have occurred. Asian economies such as South...

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