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Sanjaya Lall saw economic development as an evolutionary process, with technological learning at its heart. This essay lays out the key differences between an evolutionary theory of economic activity and change, and the neoclassical theory as articulated in economic text books. It argues that...
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Based on the Bureau of Economic Research (BER's) 2005 HIV/AIDS survey, this paper provides a snapshot view of the nature and the extent of the impact of HIV/AIDS on companies of different sizes in South Africa, as well as their response to the epidemic. Whereas the focus of most of the previous...
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The paper develops a broad macroeconomic innovation policy framework for ecologically sustainable economic development that can be applied to regional economies, from the perspective of Australia. Australia is one of the three huge per capita greenhouse emitting nations in the world. The...
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China has been characterised by extremely high rates of economic growth for the last several decades. This growth … and so have ecological imbalances. The central leadership of China are aware of these problems and recent policy documents … put strong emphasis on ‘harmonious development’ and ‘independent innovation’ (Gu and Lundvall 2006). In China the …
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This paper relates to government initiatives which aim at advancing their country’s economic development and investor attractiveness. It identifies large scale projects that involve collaboration between government and business (termed: large scale collaborative venture – LSCV) as one aspect...
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This book is based on a study of a complex project proposal by governments and corporations for a futuristic city, the Multifunction Polis (MFP). It encompasses issues and challenges symptomatic of growth initiatives in the global competitive environment. Academic rigor is applied using...
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Globalisation, far from meeting esoteric meaning requirements – everybody’s welfare –, created the conditions for a …
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Globalisation, far from meeting esoteric meaning requirements – everybody’s welfare –, created the conditions for a …
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In China, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in economic development and social wealth in terms of …-structured interviews from SMEs of manufacturing industry in Shanghai, China. According to the data results, process innovation and … study also demonstrates most SMEs in China implement free-riding strategy; some of them adopt niche strategy; and few SMEs …
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. Clemens Jürgenmeyer criticises the insufficient consideration of current data and literature about India's economic …
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