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Inventor diasporas and the internationalization of technology : 54th ERSA Congress Saint Petersburg 26-29 August, 2014
Miguélez, Ernest - 2014
This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of high-skilled individuals - i.e., inventors - on international technological collaborations. By means of gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive activity between a group of industrialized...
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Competition, technological change and productivity gains : the contribution of information technologies
Ciriani, Stéphane; Jeanjean, Fraņ̦cois - 2019
This paper addresses the empirical relationship between the level of competition and the rate of productivity growth across thirty sectors of the French production system during the period 1978- 2015. It shows that there exists an optimal level of competition for each sector that is defined by...
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The impact of mobile technology on economic growth : global insights from 2000-2017 developments
Bahia, Kalvin; Castells, Pau; Pedros, Xavie - 2019
The last two decades have seen a lot research devoted to understanding the economic impact of telecoms infrastructure; however, the explosion of mobile technology, especially in the last decade, has received much less attention. This study addresses important evidence gaps by considering the...
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TFP convergence across European regions
Di Liberto, Adriana; Usai, Stefano - 2010
This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables us to simultaneously take into account both TFP convergence and the traditional neoclassical-type of convergence. We analyse a sample of 199 European regions between 1985 and 2006 and find the absence of an overall process of TFP...
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Artificial intelligence, income distribution and economic growth
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020
The economic impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is studied using a (semi) endogenous growth model with two novel features. First, the task approach from labor economics is reformulated and integrated into a growth model. Second, the standard represen- tative household assumption is rejected,...
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Smart specialisation in the EU : is it a bridge between innovation and cohesion?
Pessoa, Argentino - 2014
Current innovation policy is the result of decades of research about the nature and role of innovation in economic … growth. Such investigation has contributed to redesign our knowledge not only on the role played by innovation in economic … development but also about the relationship between innovation and territory. Although the huge literature examining the …
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The influence of science and "industrial enlightenment" on steelmaking, 1786-1856
Suenaga, Keiichiro - In: Innovation, catch-up and sustainable development : a …, (pp. 9-27). 2021
Scientific knowledge is crucial to opening up new possibilities for major technological advances. However, the role of science has not been regarded as important in the innovations leading to modern steelmaking. In addition, how did science begin to play an important role? Mokyr focuses on the...
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Related variety, unrelated variety and technological breakthroughs : an analysis of U.S. state-level patenting
Castaldi, Carolina; Frenken, Koen; Los, Bart - 2013
We investigate how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant … innovation, we expect that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new … technology. However, we also expect that unrelated variety enhances technological breakthroughs, since radical innovation often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561289
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Environmental regulation and innovation in renewable energy technologies : does the policy instrument matter?
Hille, Erik; Althammer, Wilhelm; Diederich, Henning - 2019 - Version February 24, 2019
We examine how different renewable energy support policies affect innovation in solar and wind power technologies. The … distinguishing two dimensions of regulation, i.e. design and intensity, and their effects on innovation. The patent data is based on …
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Determinants of technological innovation in SMEs : firm-level factors, agglomeration economies and the role of KIBS providers
Ganau, Roberto; Di Maria, Eleonora - 2014
The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …
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