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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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Prescriptions for network strategy: Does evidence of network effects in cross-section support them?

Baum, Joel A.C.; Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

Although intuitively appealing (and common), drawing network strategy implications from empirical evidence of network performance effects in pooled cross-section is not necessarily warranted. This is because network positions can influence both the mean and variance of firm performance....

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Optimal health investment with separable and non-separable preferences

Azomahou, Theophile; Soete, Luc; Diene, Bity; Diene, Mbaye - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

We use a general equilibrium framework to study optimal health investment in a dynamic model where agents derive utility from consumption and health. The steady state and the dynamics of the model are studied under separable and non-separable preferences. A shock undermining health which...

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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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Nonlinearities in productivity growth: A semi-parametric panel analysis

Azomahou, Theophile; Diene, Bity; Diene, Mbaye - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

We use country panel data spanning over 1998-2008 for both developed and developing countries to study the productivity growth when countries are close to the technology frontier. Relying on a semi-parametric generalized additive model, we estimate both reduced and structural forms for total...

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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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Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe

Zhang, Ying; Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

Since end of the 1990s, the world has been witnessing a phenomenon of internationalisation of Chinese companies. This internationalisation is often understood through FDI inflows, whereby multinational companies establish their presence in a form of subsidiaries overseas. However, lately many...

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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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Fits and Misfits: Technological Matching and R&D Networks

Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas; Sanditov, Bulat - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This paper presents an economic model of R&D network formation through the creation of strategic alliances. Firms are randomly endowed with knowledge elements. They base their alliance decisions purely on the technological fit of potential partners, ignoring social capital considerations and...

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