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specifically targeting innovation in developing countries - more substantial aid has been promoting ‘private sector development … been promoting innovation in developing countries. Whether this has been an appropriate channel, with appropriate … initiatives should be adapted or fine-tuned to provide greater and more effective support for appropriate innovation activities in …
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
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We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …
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In this paper we investigate the extent of international entrepreneurship in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Oman and Syria using a dataset covering 3,281 firms. We find that weak technological capabilities constrain internationalization. Firms with ISO accreditation, an own website, and those who have...
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To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
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that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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What is the relationship between technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development? Is it better for … knowledge, innovation and growth in the past and by identifying whether and how the scope for catch-up growth exists. We focus … on the interesting case of technological innovation in the comparative economic performance of China; we draw some …
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being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
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