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Innovation has a role to play to mitigate water-related risks and to support the provision of water services on which our well-being and sustainable development depend. Water-related innovation originate in a wide range of countries, with different levels of ambition. They disseminate at...
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Smart cities represent the future of urban development in Emerging Asia as more and more cities and countries resort to smart technologies to build more efficient and liveable urban environments, boost economic growth, foster well-being and facilitate citizen engagement. Policy makers in the...
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This paper focuses on the growth and convergence of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE). We argue that the factors behind the pre-crisis growth model of the region - skilled yet affordable labour force, foreign direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing...
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A temporary change in pay to employed inventors around the time of patent application has been observed in a number of countries. A theoretical model is here developed to provide an explanation to said findings based on the idea that inventors may be able to use the knowledge previously...
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’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long … record has puzzled international and domestic economists for decades. The apparent disconnect between policy and performance …
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The globalisation of R&D activities has continued to grow as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has brought researchers and analysts to...
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&D Investment Scoreboards), as captured by trademark data and their economic performance in terms of net sales growth. It provides …
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, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … of introducing product/process innovations, but that the ensuing economic performance is rather associated to the role of … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …
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