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Impact of technological change on small and medium enterprises performance in Lagos State

Durowoju, Stella Toyosi - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 743-756

of SMEs to accept new innovative methods that will lead to higher performance of humans and machines for increased … regression technique. The hypothesis tested found that technological change has effect on organizational performance of small and … recorded in the SMEs performance is accounted for by technological change. This result is statistically significant because the …

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Dismissal laws, innovation, and economic growth

Subramanian, Krishnamurthy V. - 2018

I theoretically and empirically show that dismissal laws - laws that impose hurdles on firing of employees - spur innovation and thereby economic growth. Theoretically, dismissal laws make it costly for firms to arbitrarily discharge employees. This enables firms to commit to not punish...

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Innovation benefits from nuclear phase-out: Can they compensate the costs?

De Cian, Enrica; Carrara, Samuel; Tavoni, Massimo - 2012

This paper investigates whether an inefficient allocation of abatement, due to constraints on the use of currently available low carbon mitigation options, can promote innovation in new technologies and eventually generate welfare gains. We focus on the case of nuclear power phase out, when...

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Consumer's environmental awareness and the role of (green) entrepreneurship: Lessons from environmental quality competition and R&D activities for environmental policy

Klarl, Torben - 2013

In the recent last years, in particular in the aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis, many countries initiated economic recovery plans with a major focus on stimulating green entrepreneurial activities to revive economic growth. Further, the recovery plans intend to improve a...

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Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data

Braun, Frauke G.; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - 2010

This paper studies technological change in renewable energies, providing empirical evidence on the determinants of innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy technologies-wind and solar - across a panel of 21 OECD...

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AgriLOVE: Agriculture, land-use and technical change in an evolutionary, agent-based model

Coronese, Matteo; Occelli, Martina; Lamperti, Francesco; … - 2021

This paper presents a novel agent-based model of land use and technological change in the agricultural sector under environmental boundaries, finite available resources and changing land productivity. In particular, we model a spatially explicit economy populated by boundedly-rational farmers...

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Towards sustainable agriculture: Behaviors, spatial dynamics and policy in an evolutionary agent-based model

Coronese, Matteo; Occelli, Martina; Lamperti, Francesco; … - 2024

Economic and population growth increasingly pressure the Earth system. Fertile soils are essential to ensure global food security, requiring high-yielding agro-technological regimes to cope with rising soil degradation and macro-nutrients deficiencies, which may be further exacerbated by climate...

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Germany's Technological Specialization Assures Growth Opportunities

Belitz, Heike; Clemens, Marius; Gornig, Martin - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 16, pp. 108-113

Germany's economic profile gives reason to believe that the country will emerge strengthened from the current economic crisis. Germany boasts the world's highest share of value-added output attributable to (R&D) intensive goods and knowledge intensive services. At the same time, Germany...

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German Industry Succeeds with Research-Intensive Goods

Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 10, pp. 71-78

As a country highly specialized in the production of investment goods, Germany has been especially hard hit by the global recession. Because the production profile of German industry is technology-intensive, however, there is reason to believe that Germany will emerge from the present economic...

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Wissensintensive Branchen: Deutschland überholt bei der Wertschöpfung die USA

Belitz, Heike; Clemens, Marius; Gornig, Martin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 18, pp. 233-237

Deutschland hat sein Produktionsportfolio in der Periode von 1995 bis 2005 zugunsten forschungsintensiver Güter und wissensintensiver Dienstleistungen verbessert. Nicht zuletzt wegen dieser Spezialisierung sind deutsche Unternehmen auf den internationalen Märkten äußerst erfolgreich. Will...

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