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literature on international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), economic geography, and innovation, and compares these with … development, and on the innovation capability of countries. …
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We analyze social learning and innovation in an overlapping generations model in which available technologies have … path of a Brownian motion with drift. Marginal innovation consists in choosing a technology within the convex hull of … policies already explored and entails no direct cost. Radical innovation consists in experimenting beyond the frontier of that …
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We study social learning and innovation in an overlapping generations model, emphasizing the trade-off between marginal … innovation (combining existing technologies) and radical innovation (breaking new ground). We characterize both short-term and … long-term dynamics of innovation, and the intergenerational accumulation of knowledge. Innovation cycles emerge …
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essential role in transforming their national innovation systems so that they can be more adaptable to economic development. The … innovation activities. Balancing import of technology and indigenous R&D effort is another major theme. Innovation capability … influence on choice of innovation at the firm level, i.e., the decision at firm level in terms of indigenous R&D or import of …
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This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now. We will summarize some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of...
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Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...
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main problem is that the market-economy perspective cannot comprehend the process of innovation, including the role of the …
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In less than a decade after the end of the apartheid, South Africa has intensified its economic ties with its African neighbours to become one of the top-ten investors and trading partners of many African countries, displacing companies from the former colonial powers in Europe. Among such South...
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. India's public sector record for implementing and coordinating innovation efforts can be notoriously fragmented and …
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This paper seeks to understand the intriguing but only sparsely explored phenomenon of “leisure time invention,” where the main underlying idea for the new product or process occurs when the inventor is away from the workplace. We add to previous research by focussing on the inventive...
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