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Learning to Innovate vs. Learning to Manufacture: Towards an Alternative Technology Strategy
Tyabji, Nasir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
India's diversified and sophisticated manufacturing base contrasts strongly with the near complete absence of visible innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the evident distinction between the ability to make...
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Sources of Innovation and Technology Capability Development in the Indian Automobile Industry
Kale, Dinar - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 4 (2012) 2, pp. 121-150
In the last decade the Indian auto industry has shown increasing levels of technological sophistication and significant growth. The Indian auto industry consists of local firms with indigenous design and development capability, well established global brands and has marketing presence in Indian...
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Information Technology, Organizational Form, and Transition to the Market
Earle, John S.; Pagano, Ugo; Lesi, Maria - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002
The paper reviews theories of information technology adoption and organizational form and applies them to an empirical analysis of firm choices and characteristics in four transition economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. We argue that these economies have gone through...
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National innovation rates: the evidence for/against domestic institutions
Taylor, Mark Zachary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Why are some countries more technologically innovative than others? The dominant explanation amongst political-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no agreement on precisely how this happens, exactly...
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Communicating Technical Knowledge
Bessen, James - Research on Innovation - 2010
Firms reduce the marginal cost of communicating technical knowledge by “formalizing” it in standards, dominant designs or other ways. But this only pays when new technology is sufficiently developed. In a simple model with endogenous communication costs, two equilibria emerge. With...
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Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the U.S. Steel Industry
Collard-Wexler, Allan; De Loecker, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel, the minimill, on the aggregate productivity of U.S. steel producers, using unique plant-level data between 1963 and 2002. We find that the sharp increase in the industry's productivity is linked to this new technology, and...
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Why did the Breed Reactor Fail? - Swedish and international nuclear development in a cold war context
Fjaestad, Maja - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
This article discusses the visions about nuclear breeder reactors, plans set out in the aftermath of World War II. This seemed like the ideal solution for future energy, and even small countries, as Sweden, launched breeder reactor programs. The breeder reactor never reached industrial...
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Région apprenante: du concept à l'application :l'exemple de la Suisse
Boulianne, Louis-M. - In: Brussels Economic Review 48 (2005) 3, pp. 261-276
The communication presents a reflexion on the applicability of the concept of area learning like instrument from policy from regional development. The originality of the communication is to present a reflexion which goes from the theoretical concept to the implementation on the ground by...
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LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM MANAGING TECHNOLOGY-INTENSIVE TEAMS
THAMHAIN, HANS J. - In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology … 06 (2009) 02, pp. 117-133
effective team performance. The paper provides insight into the affects of organizational environment and managerial leadership … on project team performance in technology-oriented team environments. The results show that team leadership has … performance. Team leaders must manage the work and people relations across diverse organizational and cultural boundaries …
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The making of national giants: technology and governments shaping the international expansion of oil companies from Brazil and China
Pereira de Carvalho, Flavia; Goldstein, Andrea - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This chapter analyses foreign direct investments (henceforth FDI) in the oil industry from two large emerging economies, Brazil and China, with the purpose to understand the role of Governments and technology in the internationalisation strategies of those firms. The chapter shows that the...
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