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Foreign Direct Investment, Firm-Level Capabilities and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Kenyan Manufacturing Industry
Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
This paper uses firm-level survey data of Kenyan manufacturing industry to examine the significance of FDI and firm-level capabilities in human capital development. It undertakes a detailed descriptive comparison of human capital and other firm-level capabilities generated by both foreign and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150849
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Strategic motivations for Sino-Western alliances: a comparativeanalysis of Chinese and Western alliance formation drivers.
Saebi, Tina; Dong, Qinqin - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
This paper compares the key drivers of Sino-foreign alliance formation from the perspective of both Chinese and Western alliance partners. Our results indicate that Chinese companies enter into alliances with Western companies mainly to get accesses to international markets and to develop their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150850
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Strategic Partnering with Chinese Companies: Hidden Motives and Treasures
Duysters, Geert; Saebi, Tina; Dong, Qinqin - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
In this paper we aim to investigate the key drivers of international alliance formation from the perspective of Chinese companies. Our results indicate that Chinese companies enter into alliances with Western companies mainly to get accesses to international markets and to develop their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150788
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Private Capacity and Public Failure: Contours of Livestock Innovation Response Capacity in Kenya
Keskin, Ekin; Steglich, Mirjam; Dijkman, Jeroen; Hall, Andy - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
to present what "innovation response capacity" entails, especially for natural resourcebased industries in a developing … country context. It will also provide an analytical framework that draws elements from agricultural innovation capacity and … the innovation systems framework. This is provided through case study research conducted in Kenya by exploring two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150839
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The Global Challenges of the Knowledge Economy: China and the EU
Huang, Can; Soete, Luc - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
This paper addresses some of the challenges confronting the European Union and China as they build their knowledge economies, and their on-going and possible future actions to address such challenges. Fifty years after the creation of what became the European Union, we argue that there is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451572
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Beyond knowledge brokerage: An exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya
Kilelu, Catherine W.; Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond … include fostering integration and interaction among the diverse actors engaged in innovation networks and working on … technological, organisational and institutional innovation. Further, the study identified various organisational arrangements of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148899
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Dynamics of biosciences regulation and opportunities for biosciences innovation in Africa: Exploring regulatory policy brokering
Kingiri, Ann; Hall, Andy - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
Knowledge brokering has been explored in the innovation literature to understand how different innovation tasks are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148900