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The Governance of Knowledge: Perspectives from Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

Purwaningrum, Farah; Evers, Hans-Dieter; Ariff Lim, Syamimi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The paper revisits the concept of knowledge governance by drawing on the experience of building knowledge clusters in two countries; Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam. It explores the strategies by which a country may take up the governance of knowledge, in the context of avoiding the knowledge...

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Product differentiation and systematic risk: theory and empirical evidence

Bazdresch, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Firms producing differentiated products have high margins and therefore low risk. As a result firms invest more into developing differentiated products when they perceive risk is high. Higher risk also implies higher product skewness towards more differentiated products and therefore higher...

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Indigenous innovation capability in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of the Nigerian situation

Egbetokun, A; Siyanbola, W; Adeniyi, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Innovation process represents the long wave of value creation and it is the main powerful driver of future economic … of Science, Technology and Innovation and discusses the factors militating against the translation of scientific R … importance of institutional framework and knowledge pool in the process of building indigenous innovation capability for national …

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Evolución de la Eficiencia Productiva de una empresa privatizada: El Caso del Grupo Telefónica de España

Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Este trabajo trata de comprobar si la eficiencia productiva del Grupo Telefónica S.A. de España ha mejorado luego de ser privatizada. Se ha utilizado este caso por ser una empresa representativa en la industria de las telecomunicaciones globales. La evidencia empírica indica que las empresas...

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Decomposition analysis of green chemical technology inventions from 1971 to 2010 in Japan

Fujii, Hidemichi; Shirakawa, Seiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

formulating an effective policy to promote innovation in green chemical technology. …

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Financial Development, Econmic Growth and R&D Cyclical Movement

Fung, Ka Wai Terence; Lau, Chi Keung Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper builds up an endogenous growth model à la Aghion and Howitt (1992) and Boucekkine et al (2005). We assume that R&D firms use only investment good as input, instead of final good as hypothesized in the above two models. We show that investment price will be a negative function of...

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The Significance of Research and Development for Economic Growth: The Case of Pakistan

Khan, Jangraiz; Khattak, Rehman; Ur, Naeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper concentrates on the significance of Research and Development (R&D) for economic growth in the developing economy of Pakistan. The paper also questioned the major macro determinants of R&D in Pakistan. The study used time series data for the period 1971- 2008. The results obtained from...

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A R&D Based Real Business Cycle Model

Fung, Ka Wai Terence; Lau, Chi Keung Marco; Chan, Kwok Ho - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The New Keynesian Real Business Cycle model with staggered price adjustment is augmented with a R&D producing sector. Two sources of economic shocks are considered, namely random paritcipation (perturbances to value of alternative investment opportunities in another sector) and financial...

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Productive and cognitive innovation strategy:African framework design

Nwaobi, Godwin C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

of indigenous entrepreneurs. This paper therefore argued for the provision of comprehensive innovation policy, in which … (competitive) obstacles to innovation; and strengthening the knowledge base through investment in education, research and …

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Due diligence, research joint ventures, and incentives to innovate

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The decision to cooperate within R&D joint ventures is often based on `expert advice.' Such advice typically originates in a due diligence process, which assesses the R&D joint venture's profitability, for example, by appraising the achievability of synergies. We show that if the experts who...

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