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Stimulating Innovation in Russia: The Role of Institutions and Policies

Gianella, Christian; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

This paper examines the potential role of innovation policy in enhancing long-term productivity growth in Russia. It … respect to intellectual property rights and competition. Realising Russia’s innovation potential will also require reform of … well as the scope for improving the tax regime for private-sector R&D.<P>Augmenter l'efficacité de la politique de l'innovation …

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Russian Manufacturing and the Threat of ‘Dutch Disease': A Comparison of Competitiveness Developments in Russian and Ukrainian Industry

Ahrend, Rudiger; Rosa, Donato de; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

This paper examines the development of Russian industry in comparison with that of Ukrainian industry during 1995–2004 in an effort to ascertain to what extent, if any, Russian manufacturing showed signs of succumbing to ‘Dutch disease’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with...

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Do Russian Firms Need ISO Certification for Exporting?

Golikova, Victoria; Kuznetsov, Boris - European Regional Science Association - 2014

We present some preliminary empirical results on impact of international certification on export behavior of Russian manufacturing firms. Our research is motivated, first, by the fact that little is known about the impact of ISO certification on the performance of Russian firms and, second, by...

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Russia: Progress in Structural Reform and Framework Conditions

Vaziakova, Yana; Barnard, Geoff; Lysenko, Tatiana - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

In the 16 years since the OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation, a great many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made. This paper, expanding on Annex 1.A1 in the 2011 OECD Economic Survey of the Russian Federation,...

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Innovation potential of regions in Northern Eurasia.

Zemtsov, Stepan; Baburin, Vyacheslav - European Regional Science Association - 2013

three stages. The objective of the first and the second stage was to compare innovation capacities of northern and other … innovations - by a logistic function from model for innovation diffusion. This work confirmed the hypothesis of high concentration … the method is in inadequate quality of Russian statistics. On the second stage, the authors identified innovation clusters …

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How to Sustain Growth in a Resource Based Economy?: The Main Concepts and their Application to the Russian Case

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

In recent years economists have come to see rich natural resource endowments as a ?curse? or ?precious bane? that inevitably undermines development and slows economic growth. Resource-based development undeniably involves important risks. Nonetheless, the resource curse - if it exists - is at...

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Accounting for Russia's Post-Crisis Growth

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

This paper provides an in depth analysis of Russia’s recent growth, with a view to understanding the prospects for its continuation. It examines in detail the main drivers of growth, as well as the main developments and policies that have been underlying it. A key finding is that the role of...

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