Showing 11 - 20 of 27
A fundamental question is how to detect likely successful anticancer treatments based on nanotechnology. We confront this question here by analysing the trajectories of nanotechnologies applied to path-breaking cancer treatments, which endeavour to pinpoint ground-breaking and fruitful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856405
efficiency and labour market efficiency, financial market development, technological readiness and capacity for innovation. Our …-industry cooperation, RD and innovation capacity. Knowledge transfer through utilization of international trade is facilitated by the sound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856458
This paper uses the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the OECD 1996 definition of knowledge-based economy, the World Bank Knowledge Index and Knowledge Economy Index and other indicators to examine progress and challenges in transition to knowledge-based economies in Arab Gulf...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856485
the definite path towards becoming one in the foreseeable future. A careful examination of their innovation policies shows … industry. Malaysia, on the contrary, has very similar fiscal instruments for encouraging innovation. But it suffers from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856513
This paper studies whether firms' use of R&D subsidies and R&D tax incentives are correlated to two sources of underinvestment in R&D, financing constraints and appropriability. We find that financially constrained SMEs are less likely to use R&D tax credits and more likely to obtain subsidies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712290
possible dimensions of the innovation system are considered, namely the (a) policies with respect to the supply of technically … innovation; and (d) promotion of technology-based ventures through venture capital funds. The country suffers from a chronic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712391
traditional knowledge and the set of beneficiaries that are to exercise the right. Using the theory of cumulative innovation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712408
significant number of research grants have been made available to its innovation system comprising the higher education sector … real weaknesses of the innovation system shows that the country suffers from a severe shortage of scientists and engineers … migration abroad. Without addressing this basic lacuna in its innovation system, the country has put in place three sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712418
between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending rather than RD … spending is used to predict innovation in the CDM model. Second, we assume that a firm simultaneously innovates and chooses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004573
This paper reviews the current state of indicators of the activity of innovation and how they are presented for use in …, which raises questions about the definition of innovation. This is followed by a review of plans for the evolution of … innovation indicators and their use over the next few years. These plans, national and international, are diverse and this leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004587