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The impact of innovation activities on productivity and firm growth: evidence from Brazil

Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

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Relatorio da situação da conexidade à internet e banda larga no Brasil

Marín, Javier; Creus, Ruben G.; Zaballos, Antonio García - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Este relatório tem por objetivo analisar a correlação existente entre a quantidade e qualidade da infraestrutura do Brasil versus seu desenvolvimento econômico, tendo como um de seus sustentáculos a penetração da Banda Larga nos 5.565 municípios do Brasil e, principalmente, nos...

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Thinking locally: Exploring the importance of a subsidiary-centered model of FDI-related spillovers in Brazil

Marin, Anabel; Costa, Ionara - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This paper investigates FDI-related spillovers in Brazil for the period 1996-2005. In contrast to most previous recent studies, which have failed to identify any significant effects in emerging economies, we found that horizontal spillovers did arise in Brazil. However, they did not arise simply...

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The Role of Flagship Firms, External Actors and Support Institutions in the Emergence of Successful Export Activities in Brazil: Two Industrial Cluster Studies

Rocha, Angela da; Kury, Beatriz; Monteiro, Joana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper examines the process by which firms in a cluster start to export based on systemic interactions and the process of diffusion of exporting as a business strategy within the cluster. Two Brazilian manufacturing industries are studied, and within each one a geographic cluster was...

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Relatorio da situação da conexidade à internet e banda larga no Brasil

Marín, Javier; Creus, Ruben G.; Zaballos, Antonio García - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

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Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas

Chong, Alberto; Ferrara, Eliana La - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo—the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country—across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980...

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Televisión y divorcio: evidencias de las novelas en Brasil

Chong, Alberto; Ferrara, Eliana La - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

En este trabajo se analiza el vínculo entre la televisión y el divorcio en Brasil mediante el estudio de la variación en la distribución temporal de la disponibilidad de la señal de Rede Globo —la red televisiva que tenía prácticamente el monopolio de las telenovelas en el país— en...

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Beyond technological catch-up: An empirical investigation of further innovative capability accumulation outcomes in latecomer firms with evidence from Brazil

Figueiredo, Paulo N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

makers in developing economies to adopt a comprehensive view on innovative activities and place firm-centred innovation … capability accumulation at the centre of industrial innovation policies. …

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Firms' innovation capability-building paths and the nature of changes in learning mechanisms: Multiple case-study evidence from an emerging economy

Figueiredo, Paulo N.; Cohen, Marcela; Gomes, Saulo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

in the accumulation of innovation capabilities, especially among firms from emerging economies, known as latecomers. By … increased intensity and quality achieved higher innovation capability levels than firms that used these learning mechanisms with … learning mechanisms were associated with the attainment of particular innovation capability levels. Therefore, if latecomer …

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