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Technology Policy and Co-operative R&D the role of Relational Research Capacity
Cusmano, Lucia - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000
Evolutionary theories of technological change and industrial dynamics give primary importance to interaction between heterogeneous agents, endowed with complementary assets and competencies. Accordingly, support to co-operative R&D is central to technology policy, as a mean for increasing system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839257
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Principles, Practices, and Challenges for Green Infrastructure Projects in Latin America
Quintero, Juan David - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper proposes a concept of green infrastructure, centered on a multi-level approach to infrastructure development that addresses these impacts. The paper argues that only multi-level solutions, encompassing national policy, sector planning, and sound project engineering, will be able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010728976
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Financial Structuring of Infrastructure Projects in Public-Private Partnerships: An Application to Water Projects
Vives, Antonio; Paris, Angela; Benavides, Juan; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
This report sets out an approach and a set of tools for the financial structuring of public-private partnership projects, with a particular application to the potable water and sanitation sector. The analytical framework developed here arose from the experience and insight of investors, lenders,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652608
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Principles, Practices, and Challenges for Green Infrastructure Projects in Latin America
Quintero, Juan David - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper proposes a concept of green infrastructure, centered on a multi-level approach to infrastructure development that addresses these impacts. The paper argues that only multi-level solutions, encompassing national policy, sector planning, and sound project engineering, will be able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652961
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Financial Structuring of Infrastructure Projects in Public-Private Partnerships: An Application to Water Projects
Vives, Antonio; Paris, Angela; Benavides, Juan; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
This report sets out an approach and a set of tools for the financial structuring of public-private partnership projects, with a particular application to the potable water and sanitation sector. The analytical framework developed here arose from the experience and insight of investors, lenders,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198563
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Firm Assets and Investments in Open Source Software Products
Fosfuri, Andrea; Giarratana, Marco S.; Luzzi, Alessandra - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005
Open source software (OSS) has recently emerged as a new way to organize innovation and product development in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273123
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Clusters and Knowledge Local Buzz, Global Pipelines and the Process of Knowledge Creation
Bathelt, Harald; Malmberg, Andersand; Maskell, Peter - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002
The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in various sorts of interactive learning processes. It questions the merit of the prevailing explanatory model where the realm of tacit knowledge transfer is confined to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273133
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Understanding absorptive capacities in an "innovation systems" context consequences for economic and employment growth
Narula, Rajneesh - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004
This paper seeks to broaden our understanding of the concept underlying absorptive capacity at the macro –level, paying particular attention to the growth and development perspectives. We provide definitions of absorptive and technological capacity, external technology flows, productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169031
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The Further the Better? Knowledge Intensive Service Firms' Collaboration on Innovation
Vinding, Anker Lund; Drejer, Ina - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
services are explored: i) firms with a high level of absorptive capacity are more likely to collaborate on innovation than … firms with a relatively low level of absorptive capacity; ii) given that the firms collaborate on innovation, the main … innovation partner of knowledge intensive service firms with a high level of absorptive capacity is likely to be located further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169039
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Why Technological Spillovers elude Developing Countries A Dynamic Non-linear Model
Wamae, Watu - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
context of developing countries. The main aim of the paper consists in investigating the impact of domestic innovation, via … domestic innovation, a critical component for the development of an absorptive capacity, is a significant determinant of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627353