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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers: Evidence from The Indian Manufacturing Sector

Sasidharan, Subash - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

During the recent period, we observe that many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But the empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to...

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The Financing of R&D and Innovation

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lerner, Josh - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced underinvestment is absent. We conclude that while small and new innovative firms experience high costs of capital that are...

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Is there complementarity or substitutability between internal and external R&D strategies?

Hagedoorn, John; Wang, Ning - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

alternative specifications and estimation techniques, including a dynamic perspective on firm innovative performance. …

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Incubators as Tools for Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries

Akcomak, Semih - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

This paper reviews the literature on incubators in developed and developing countries. We show that the concept of incubators has evolved in time according to market and firm needs. Contemporary successful incubators are profit-oriented, provide a wide range of services, focus more on intangible...

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Does Excellence in Academic Research Attract Foreign R&D?

Belderbos, Rene; Leten, Bart; Suzuki, Shinya - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

We examine the role of host countries’ academic research strengths in global R&D location decisions by multinational firms. While we expect that a firm’s propensity to perform R&D in a host country increases with the strength of local academic research, firms are expected to be...

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Technological activities and their impact on the financial performance of the firm: Exploitation and exploration within and between firms

Belderbos, Rene; Faems, Dries; Leten, Bart; Van Looy, Bart - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

This paper analyzes the consequences for financial performance of technology strategies categorized along two … dimensions: (1) explorative versus exploitative and (2) solitary versus collaborative. The financial performance implications of … the performance implications of firms’ technology strategies are derived. These hypotheses are tested empirically on a …

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The when and where of research in agricultural innovation trajectories: Evidence and implications from RIU's South Asia projects

Reddy, Vamsidhar; Hall, Andy; Sulaiman, Rasheed - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

The question of how agricultural research can best be used for developmental purposes is a topic of some debate in developmental circles. The idea that this is simply a question of better transfer of ideas from research to farmers has been largely discredited. Agricultural innovation is a...

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Beyond knowledge brokerage: An exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya

Kilelu, Catherine W.; Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond knowledge brokering has resulted in a changing landscape of the intermediary domain in an increasingly market-driven agricultural sector in developing countries. This paper...

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Dynamics of biosciences regulation and opportunities for biosciences innovation in Africa: Exploring regulatory policy brokering

Kingiri, Ann; Hall, Andy - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

Knowledge brokering has been explored in the innovation literature to understand how different innovation tasks are organised toward technological development. This paper reflects upon the role of different organisations as knowledge brokers in regulatory policy processes towards putting...

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Size, competition, and innovative activities: a developing world perspective

Waheed, Abdul - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

The impact of size and competition on firm-level innovative activities has obtained considerable attention in developed countries, but the focus is still lacking in developing world. This paper is an attempt to contribute in this direction by including 14 Latin American countries, and by using...

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