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Measuring innovation in developing countries: some suggestions to achieve more accurate and useful indicators

Sutz, Judith - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 5 (2012) 1/2, pp. 40-57

The paper contributes to an ongoing international discussion around how to measure innovation in developing countries and how to turn the findings into useful policy tools. It stresses the fact that innovation needs to be understood as a learning process, and concomitantly measuring innovation...

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Innovation policies institutions and performance: why Malaysia overtook Nigeria in the oil palm industry

Adebowale, Boladale O. Abiola - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 5 (2012) 1/2, pp. 126-157

Forty years ago, Nigeria and Malaysia had comparative GDP per capita; Nigeria was the leading oil palm producer and exporter in the world. Within a decade, Malaysia overtook Nigeria both as producer and exporter. This paper provides a comparative perspective of the evolution of institutions and...

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Bridging the digital divide: the Indian experience in increasing the access to telecommunications services

Mani, Sunil - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 5 (2012) 1/2, pp. 184-203

India has one of the fastest growing telecom services industries in the world. Teledensity in the country which was less than one telephone per 100 people in 1991, when the country unleashed a wave of market reforms, have now increased to about 66 per 100 at the end of 2010. There are, of...

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Balancing explorative and exploitative learning under open innovation: an empirical study in China

Zhu, Zhaohui; Chen, Jin - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 5 (2012) 4, pp. 385-407

exploitation within the context of technological learning in a developing country. The results suggest that it is of great … technological learning, and to understand the value of important factors which will affect firms. …

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The introduction of the systems of innovation approach in economics curricula

Scerri, Mario - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 5 (2012) 1/2, pp. 12-27

In this paper, I examine the possible modes of introducing a systems of innovation (SI) approach into economics curricula. I look at the various possible choices of coupling this approach with standard economic curricula and then explore the implications of these various choices. I link this...

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Institutional capacity and policy for latecomer technology development

Oyeyinka, Banji O. - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 5 (2012) 1/2, pp. 83-110

Latecomer countries possess varying levels of policy and institutional capacity to make the right kinds of choices that promote development, which explain to a large extent the difficulties they face in transforming knowledge through learning activities to technological capabilities and...

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Innovations for the poor by the poor

Gupta, Anil K. - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 5 (2012) 1/2, pp. 28-39

The concern for inclusive or harmonious development is being articulated worldwide. There is a belated realisation that for extreme affordability, there is no choice but to learn from green grassroots innovators and traditional knowledge holders. Honey Bee Network began scouting, spawning and...

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How Chinese firms learn technology from transnational corporations : a comparison of the telecommunication and automobile industries

He, Xiyou; Mu, Qing - In: Journal of Asian economics 23 (2012) 3, pp. 270-287

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Towards a low-carbon economy : coping with technological bifurcations with a carbon tax

Chi, Chunjie; Ma, Tieju; Zhu, Bing - In: Energy economics 34 (2012) 6, pp. 2081-2088

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Learning and Corporate Strategy: The Dynamic Evolution of the North American Pulp and Paper Industry, 1860-1960

Toivanen, Hannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

, corporate strategy, policy, and technological learning co-evolved, and established the evolutionary path of the North American … evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry between 1860 and 1960 was driven by successive waves of technological … learning that spawned structural change. Such waves transformed and expanded the sulphite and sulphate pulp, envelope, paper …

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