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This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …
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An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...
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innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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essential role in transforming their national innovation systems so that they can be more adaptable to economic development. The … innovation activities. Balancing import of technology and indigenous R&D effort is another major theme. Innovation capability … influence on choice of innovation at the firm level, i.e., the decision at firm level in terms of indigenous R&D or import of …
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problems in the innovation process, and highlight the positive role played by international trade in the technology transfer …
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Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
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Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...
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In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...
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The research project „KompNet 2011 – Sucess factors of regional innovation networks“, funded by the Federal Ministry of … Education and Research (BMBF), examines the innovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in and closely … strategic alignment. The innovation activities focus clearly on product innovation instead of process innovation. Furthermore …
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