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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277005
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Strengthening Innovation in the United States
Carey, David; Hill, Christopher; Kahin, Brian - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
The US innovation system has many strengths, including world class research universities and firms that thrive in innovation-intensive sectors. However, fissures have begun to appear, notably in the areas of human capital development, the patent system and manufacturing activity, while public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277031
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Maintaining Switzerland's Top Innovation Capacity
Jaumotte, Florence - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
Despite some weakening in the 1990s, partly due to sluggish trend growth, the Swiss innovation performance has been …<BR>Nonobstant une certaine détérioration durant les années 1990 liée en partie à une croissance tendencielle faible, la performance de …'encore renforcer cette performance et d'aider la Suisse à préserver sa position de leader malgré les changements qui s'opèrent dans l …
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Unleashing Business Innovation in Canada
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro stability, openness, strong human capital, low corporate tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276823
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From Ideas to Development: The Determinants of R&D and Patenting
Jaumotte, Florence; Pain, Nigel - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
This paper uses panel regressions to investigate the effects of innovation policies and framework factors on business R&D intensity and patenting for a sample of 20 OECD countries over the period 1982- 2001. Both sets of factors are found to matter; the main determinants of innovativeness appear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049012