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Ways of Thinking About Economic Growth: Papers from MED's Growth Seminar Series

Carlaw, Kenneth; Easton, Brian; Grimes, Arthur; Mare, David - Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, … - 2008

The Ministry of Economic Development ran a series of seminars about economic growth in 2004. One was an economic history of economic growth in New Zealand, three were on different and sometimes contradictory conceptual ways of thinking about economic growth – endogenous growth theory, Austrian...

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How Has the Portuguese Innovation Capability Evolved? Estimating a Time Series of the Stock of Technological Knowledge, 1960-2001

Teixeira, Aurora A. C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2004

The importance of promoting innovation has been elevated up to a status of official standard since the Lisbon European … innovation could be built. R&D has been a growing area of investigation namely at level of firms micro studies aimed at … uncovering firms’ innovation capability. At the macro level, the relevance of R&D for countries’ innovation capability has been …

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The Tourism-led Growth Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence from Colombia

Brida, Juan Gabriel; Pereyra, Juan S.; Risso, Wiston Adrián - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The purpose of this study is to investigate the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Colombia. First, we perform an ex-post analysis and quantify the contribution of the tourism to economic growth from the early 90’s until 2006 by disaggregating growth of real GDP per capita into...

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Causality between Economic Growth and Tourism Expansion: Empirical Evidence from Trentino - Alto Adige

Brida, Juan Gabriel; Barquet, Andrea; Risso, Wiston Adrián - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the causal relations between tourism growth, relative prices and economic expansion for the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, a region of northeast Italy bordering on Switzerland and Austria. Johansen cointegration analysis shows the existence of one cointegrated vector...

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Tourism Development Policy, Strategic Alliances and Impact of Consumer Price Index on Tourist Arrivals: The Case of Malaysia

Nanthakumar, Loganathan; Ibrahim, Yahaya; Harun, Madzli - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Many studies have shown the importance of tourism industry in enhancing trade performance and economic development. This study examines the hypothesis of ‘economic-driven’ tourism growth in Malaysia by using econometric modelling. To generate the empirical analysis, this study used data from...

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New growth theories: what is in there for developing countries?

Islam, Nazrul - In: Journal of Developing Areas 38 (2004) 1, pp. 171-212

This paper reviews new growth theories (NGT) from the perspective of developing countries. It shows that despite some views to the contrary, NGT and the growth debate that it spawned have some useful lessons for developing countries. Some of these lessons and ideas were indeed available from...

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Editor’s introduction. the future of agricultural biotechnology: creative destruction, adoption, or irrelevance?–in honor of Prof. Vittorio Santaniello.

Wesseler, Justus; Scatasta, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

With the death of Prof. Vittorio Santaniello in the summer of 2007, the International Consortium for Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR) lost one of its most enthusiastic founders and most important contributors. This special issue celebrates Prof. Santaniello’s commitment to the...

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Factors of Economic Growth

Ponomareva, Ekaterina; Bozhechkova, Alexandra; Knobel, … - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2012

This publication deals with the analysis of theoretical concepts, which explain the influence of innovations on scientific and technological progress for long term perspective.

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Main Principles of Innovation Theory

Komarov, Vladimir - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2012

This publication deals with the analysis of theoretical concepts, which explain the influence of innovations on scientific and technological progress for long term perspective.

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Growth and Barriers to Technology Adoption in Developing Countries: What about Cote d'Ivoire?

Iritie, B. G. Jean-Jacques - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We conduct a general reflection on the barriers to technology adoption in Côte d'Ivoire and make some proposals. The quality of institutions play an important role.

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