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This paper discusses alternative incentive mechanisms for encouraging pharmaceutical innovations that support global health policy priorities. Patent buyouts, in which a public fund pays a mark-up on private valuations from sealed-bid second-price auctions, would boost the efficiency of research...
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This paper investigates the link between inward FDI and innovation activity in China, using a very comprehensive and … through which FDI affects the innovation of domestic private and collectively owned enterprises. …
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opposite ends of a spectrum in terms of their role in innovation. In academic entrepreneurship the two combine on a number of …
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The standard indicators used to compare cross-country innovation are in the Global Competitiveness Report (GCR). But …
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This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance. -- Regional financial system ; FDI ; innovation ; patent ; regional …
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growth and convergence of an economy towards the world technology frontier. -- Growth ; skills ; innovation ; selection …
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an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …
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We analyze the dynamics of the Japanese board network from 2004 until 2013. We find that the network exhibits some clustering with visible firm conglomerates. Ties between firms are rather persistent, despite noticeable churning among directors. Ownership relations explain only a small fraction...
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Sustainable intensification of Ghana’s smallholder farming is critical to mitigate rural poverty. Innovations for sustainable intensification include agro-ecological practices, which build up soil fertility, and mulching, which conserves soil moisture. To stimulate the adoption of these...
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