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Research collaboration in co-inventor networks: combining closure,bridging and proximities

Cassi, Lorenzo; Plunket, Anne - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of co-inventor tie formation using micro-data on genomic patents from 1990 to 2006 in France. In a single analysis, we consider the relational and proximity perspectives that are usually treated separately. In order to do so, we analyse various forms of...

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Production Efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: An Application of LISREL Model

Mariam, Yohannes; Eisemon, Thomas; Coffin, Garth - 1993

The study examined a simplified conceptual model which incorporates variables that influence the processes and consequences of household decision-making in the Ada and Selale districts of the Ethiopian highlands. Linear structural relations (LISREL) analysis was performed on three conceptual...

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Art, Music and Science: Economics of Inter-Stellar Travel

Mamoon, Dawood - 2018

The paper suggests that human aesthetics precedes technical and technological progress to make up an economic plan to facilitate the provisions of science affordable to consumers universally without discriminating between varying demographic, cultural, religious and economic orientations.

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Exploring the viability of Smart Public Universities in the Philippines’ Zamboanga Peninsula Region

Sulasula, Josephine - 2023

This research examines the viability of implementing Smart Public Universities (i.e., State Universities and Colleges [SUCs]) in Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX), Philippines. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the study investigates the current technological infrastructure, digital literacy...

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International Co-operative Agreements in Hungary in the mid-1990s: Evolution, organisational forms and industry characteristics

Havas, Attila - 1998

As the legislation on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Hungary has been probably the most liberal in Central and Eastern Europe since the mid-1980s, FDI is the primary form chosen by Western firms to enter the Hungarian market. The major channels of FDI include the privatisation of former...

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The role of mid-range universities in knowledge transfer: the case of non-metropolitan regions in Central and Eastern Europe (examples from Hungary and the Czech Republic)

Gál, Zoltán; Ptáček, Pavel - 2010

innovation systems for the less developed regions where the “density of contacts” is much lower and possible spillovers emerge … collaboration with business sector and their role in the innovation system is quite different form their CEE counterparts. It is … mainly due to the different development path of innovation systems and development trajectories in post-communist countries …

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Diversifying Electricity Customer Choice: REVing Up the New York Energy Vision for Polycentric Innovation

Nyangon, Joseph; Byrne, John - 2018

Electric utility business models are changing to integrate new technologies and distributed energy resources (DER). Diversifying energy mix and customer choices are both novel and useful in understanding key drivers of this transformation, including distribution system planning and...

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Proximity, network formation and inventive performance: in search of the proximity paradox

Cassi, Lorenzo; Plunket, Anne - 2013

performance. Using patent citations as a proxy for patent quality, we investigate how the network and proximity characteristics of … performance, too much proximity may even harm innovation (Boschma and Frenken, 2009; Broekel and Boschma, 2011). …

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Some properties of the technology gap between leading and lagging regions

Batabyal, Amitrajeet; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

We theoretically analyze some properties of the technology gap between leading and lagging regions studied recently by Batabyal and Nijkamp [1]. New technologies are developed in the leading region. The lagging region does not conduct research and development (R & D) but uses the leading...

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How are social ties formed? : Interaction of neighborhood and individual immobility.

Yamamura, Eiji - 2009

Using individual data from Japan, this paper investigates how a neighbor’s immobility is associated with individual investment in social capital. It is found that local homeownership has a positive effect on individual investment and that this effect for individual homeowners is about 2.5...

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