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The interaction between trade liberalisation, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand is analysed in … substitutability of their products through additional investment in product innovation. The paper also shows that the relative demand …
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Eastern Germanys recovery from the unification shock has beencharacterized by deep structural change with apparent repercussions for the West as well and an integration process involving both capital deepening (extensive and intensive investment) and labor thinning (net out-migration). I propose...
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Die Gestaltung der Produktpalette war ein zentrale Herausforderung für ostdeutsche Unternehmen nach der Wende. Spezialisierung oder eine diffuse Generalistenstrategie war die Frage. Welche Strategie sich durchgesetzt hat und ob der Anschluss an den Westen gelang, wird in dieser Arbeit erstmals...
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There is no doubt that innovation is nowadays the main determinant ofeconomic growth and that the human resource is as … labourmarket rigidities in the explanation of cross-countries differences in innovation andgrowth performances, and calls for … of a moregeneral policy consensus on competitive markets as the engine of innovation and onmonopolistic distortions as …
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level of competition in an industry and the level of innovation inthat industry. Thus, when consolidation changes the level … of competition in an industry wemight expect this to have implications for the level of innovation in that industry. The … industry innovation through funding R&D by industry and in itsown research facilities. We present data on changes to the …
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and form of intellectualcompetition, innovation and coordination in the public sciences. However, the nature …
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The literature on Regional Systems of Innovation (RSI) has produced an extensivebody of research in recent years and … institutional, systemic andevolutionary approaches to innovation and learning.... …
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articulated in relationto the dynamics of medical innovation and enriched by an empirical study on the long-termevolution of …
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Different ways of competing in markets came to dominate particular sectors, regions and national market economies in the postwar period as a result of variations in market conditions, technological regimes and institutional contexts. These varied in terms of production volumes, basis of...
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seen as an attractive and feasible instrument for furthering the goals of innovation policy. However, public procurement is … innovation draws upon a limited set of examples which are not representative of the bulk of public purchasing and tend to … the nature of innovations and in the range of ways that procurement can impact upon innovation. A one-size-fits-all model …
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