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higher rates of new-to-the-market innovations among SMEs and of SME innovation collaborations with other firms and … stimulating SME innovation. …
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With sound framework conditions, fine universities, good infrastructure and policies friendly towards foreign direct investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in...
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The paper aims to show how policy makers can stimulate firms' cooperation with research organisations in innovation. We …-regional than intra-regional cooperation. The firms' propensity to extend cooperation across the region is assumed to increase with … investigate the effect of an increasing amount of support. All the hypotheses are not rejected. Firms' cooperation is policy …
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-industry cooperation and international collaboration, which are all weak. Considerable EU funding is available to support innovation. Most … of it is conditioned on science-industry co-operation, which is showing initial benefits. A lively start-up scene is …
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Participation in global value chains (GVCs) can be a pathway for economic development. It is associated with growing productivity, exporting more sophisticated products and a less concentrated export basket (Kowalski et al., 2015). However, it is often argued that these benefits accrue mainly to...
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Micro, small and medium-sized firms (MSMEs) are a key source of employment and economic growth in Indonesia. They contributed to the country’s economic resilience during the 2008-09 financial crisis. But many suffer from low productivity, curbing their role in boosting living standards. There...
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Danish productivity has grown only weakly over the past two decades, both historically and in relation to other countries, despite sound policies and institutions. At the same time, the country has lost export market shares. Denmark needs to continue its efforts to reap the benefits of...
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