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New Technologies in remittances sending: Opportunities for mobile remittances in Africa

Siegel, Melissa; Fransen, Sonja - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012

Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....

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Persistence of and interrelation between horizontal and vertical technology alliances

Belderbos, Rene; Gilsing, Victor; Lokshin, Boris - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …

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FDI, R&D and Innovation Output in the Chinese Automobile Industry

Chen, Fang; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

interrelationships between, innovation input and innovation output, and in particular whether FDI had any influence on these two aspects … of innovation. A generalized tobit model will be estimated for both R&D and the share of innovative sales for 2002 …

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Drivers of Brazilian foreign investments – technology seeking and technology exploiting as determinants of emerging FDI

Carvalho, Flavia; Duysters, Geert; Costa, Ionara - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

The paper uses data from a recent survey on Brazilian firms to investigate the role of technology in the internationalization of firms, and whether if affects the destination of foreign investments. Emerging markets FDI is a much-debated topic these days, and their technology-seeking purpose is...

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Outsourcing, Delocalization and Firm Organization: Transaction Costs vs. Industrial Relations in a Local Production System of Emilia-Romagna

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro; Pini, Paolo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing decisions in firms characterized by “thick’ industrial relations, that is where unions and employees are involved in, and are sometimes able to affect, the relative managerial...

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Beyond Technological Diversification: The Impact of Employee Diversity on Innovation

Østergaard, Christian R.; Timmermans, Bram; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2009

’s likelihood of introducing an innovation. The analysis draws on data from a recent innovation survey. This data is merged with a … non-significant effects of the different employee characteristics on the likelihood of introducing an innovation. …

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Learning Networks Matter: Challenges to Developing Learning-Based Competence in Mango Production and Post-Harvest in Andhra Pradesh, India

Prasad Pant, Laxmi; Hambly Odame, Helen; Hall, Andy; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

This discussion paper explores aspects of innovation systems ideas in the analysis of mango production and export by … to aspects of integrated technology development and innovation management. …

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Developing science, technology and innovation indicators: what we can learn from the past

Soete, Luc; Freeman, Chris - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

The science-technology-innovation system is one that is continuously and rapidly evolving. The dramatic growth over the … last twenty years in the use of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators appears first and foremost the result … and economic objectives and in which business competition is increasingly based on innovation. As highlighted on the basis …

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Local Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation and Economic Performance in Developing Countries: A discussion of alternative specifications

Kesidou, Effie; Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

local knowledge spillovers for innovation. However, not much is known about whether local knowledge spillovers work …This paper examines the importance of local knowledge spillovers for the innovative and economic performance of firms … similarly in developing countries. This analysis is based on an original innovation survey in the software industry in Uruguay …

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FDI and Innovation as Drivers of Export Behaviour: Firm-level Evidence from East Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation and exporting in electronics firms in three late … trade and innovation and learning. Technology-based approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm …-level exporting behavior. The econometric results (using probit) confirm the importance of foreign ownership and innovation in …

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