Canada is consistently ranked among the best places to live. However, its potential for sustainable prosperity could …. This article develops an institutional perspective on comparative economic development between Canada and the United States … adopted more classically liberal mercantilist institutions than Canada. This initial institutional disparity is associated …

Canada is consistently ranked among the best places to live. However, its potential for sustainable prosperity could … article develops an institutional perspective on comparative economic development between Canada and the United States (U ….S. historically adopted more classically liberal mercantilist institutions than Canada. This initial institutional disparity is …

This paper studies the diffusion of knowledge and its consequences for local innovation production. In a common … on local innovation production as large as that of homegrown knowledge. …

policy realm. It has brought out the fact the total manufacturing R&D investment in India is unevenly distributed regionally …This study makes an early attempt to estimate the magnitude and intensity of manufacturing firms’ R&D by Indian states … in R&D, the study has developed and estimated an empirical model for a sample of 4545 Indian manufacturing firms with R …

This paper using Malmquist productivity indexes analyzes the impact of internalization on productivity efficiency and … competitive advantage for a sample of 395 firms with foreign ownership operating in the Greek manufacturing sector. A number of … different factors in respect to firms’ productivity performance and creation of competitive advantage are been explored. The …

(competitive) obstacles to innovation; and strengthening the knowledge base through investment in education, research and …Since the mid 1900’s, economist have come to recognize the role of innovative activity in firms productivity growth … of indigenous entrepreneurs. This paper therefore argued for the provision of comprehensive innovation policy, in which …

Using data for twelve manufacturing industries over the period 1980-2006, we perform for Italy and Spain a dynamic …

technological innovations to achieve the productivity gains in these economic sectors: especially in the devices (cam and …

, little transfer of technology, negligible progress in the upgrading of industrial production, and little increase in value …