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Analysis of Innovation and Energy Profiles in the Turkish Manufacturing Sector

Okay, Nesrin; Konukman, Alp Er S.; Akman, Ugur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We present Turkey’s manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first time, analyze likely relationships among GDP growth, sectoral innovation intensities, energy consumptions, and energy-saving potentials. We detect a power-law-like relationship between the projected energy-saving...

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The globalisation of intellectual property rights: four learned lessons and four theses

Archibugi, Daniele; Filippetti, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) have become ubiquitous in the current debate and have emerged as the key issue of global innovation policy. The ‘Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights’ (TRIPS) Agreement, signed in 1994 as a founding element of the World Trade Organisation,...

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Analysis of ESCO Activities Using Country Indicators

Okay, Nesrin; Akman, Ugur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) are private sector instruments that offer energy-/emission-improvement (energy saving, energy efficiency, energy conservation, emission reduction) projects in the developed and in some developing countries. Literature reveals that energy-/emission-improvements of...

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Process assessment for use in very small enterprises: the NOEMI assess-ment methodology

DI RENZO, Bernard; FELTUS, Christophe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This paper relates to the development and the experimentation of an IT process assessment methodology especially designed to be used in very small enterprises (VSEs). This methodology, called NOEMI , has been developed as a critical part of a public research project of the Centre de Recherche...

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Ownership versus Management Effects on Performance in Family and Founder Companies: A Bayesian Analysis

Joern, Block; Peter, Jaskiewicz; Danny, Miller - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

There are ongoing debates in the literature concerning the performance of family firms: some studies find superior … performance among these companies, others find negative or neutral per-formance effects. In this research we employ agency theory … contribute positively to performance, the latter is argued to erode performance. Previous studies, due to problems of omitted …

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Policy options of agricultural biotechnology R&D in Sub-Saharan Africa: key issues and aspects

Yawson, Robert M.; Yawson, Ivy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper reviews the status of Agricultural Biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa. It addresses the potential economic benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa and the effect biotechnology policies may have on growth, production and poverty reduction. The extent to which agricultural biotechnology will...

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A stakeholder approach to investigating public perception and attitudes towards agricultural biotechnology in Ghana

Yawson, Robert M.; Quaye, Wilhemina; Williams, Irene E.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A stakeholder survey was conducted in Ghana to assess the level of public perceptions and acceptance of agricultural biotechnologies. A total of 100 respondents drawn from academia, Non-governmental organizations, business community, government and other stakeholders were interviewed on their...

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Nanotechnology and business opportunities: scenarios as awareness instrument

Knol, Erik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

For a few years now, nanotechnology has been recognised as a promising new growth innovator. This leads to a shift from the exploration of nanotechnology knowledge towards a phase of exploitation. The coming years this commercialisation of nanotechnology will be extended. Nanotechnology is a...

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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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Linking developing country's cooperation on climate control with industrialized country's R&D and technology transfer

Kemfert, Claudia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Using a world multi-sectoral, multi-regional trade model, this paper has investigated the economic and environmental implications of climate control coalitions cooperating on R&D investment that triggers low cost environmentally friendly technologies. We start with the Kyoto scenario where all...

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