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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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Foreign direct investment spillovers, absorptive capacities and human capital development : evidence from Argentina
Narula, Rajneesh; Marin, Anabel - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2005
Queries whether developing countries really benefit in terms of technology by attracting multinational enterprises through tax advantages and other benefits. Finds, in the case of Argentina, that a significant technology spillover does not occur automatically, but would require domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965945
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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
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Seguridad y salud en el trabajo de construcción : el caso de Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
López-Valcárcel, Alberto; Bartra, José Carlos; … - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2000
Includes comments on the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690191
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The construction industry in China: its image, employment prospects and skill requirements subtitle
Lu, You-Jie; Fox, P. W - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2001
Documents recent changes in the organization and regulation of the construction sector in China. Analyses the impact of these changes upon the construction labour force, the terms and conditions of employment, health and safety, training and the acquisition of skills. Conclude that in China (as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662738
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Informal labour in the construction industry in Kenya a case study of Nairobi
Mitullah, Winnie V; Njeri Wachira, Isabella - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2003
Presents findings of a study of construction workers in a low income settlement on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Finds that workers are predominantly employed on a casual or temporary basis without contracts, and with unregulated terms and conditions of employment; workers have no protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084826