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The Philippines is one of the leading exporters of high technology products from the developing world. However its production of these items is largely based on assembly of imported components. Affiliates of MNCs and small and medium local companies dominate the country's manufacturing sector....
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Iran's manufacturing sector has been growing very rapidly during the 1990s. Consequent to the structural reforms initiated, almost entirely due to domestic compulsions, the sector is undergoing a wave of privatisation and is also more open to foreign investments. The change over to a Republic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712372
It is now fairly well established both in theory and practice that if industrial R&D is left entirely in the hands of private sector enterprises there will be under investments. The desire to under invest is proportional to the size of the spill-over gap. In order to correct for these, public...
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The purpose of the paper is to analyse the role of the Indian state in promoting innovations in enterprise or manufacturing sector. The country's manufacturing sector is dominated by the Chemicals and pharmaceutical sector which also accounts for the largest share in R&D investments and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712391
South Africa used to follow a policy of import substitution, necessitated by subscription to apartheid. However, following the democratic elections of 1994, the country abandoned this policy and put in place a whole host of measures to increase its industrial competitiveness. Policy makers gave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712418
The Philippines is one of the leading exporters of high technology products from the developing world. However its production of these items is largely based on assembly of imported components. Affiliates of MNCs and small and medium local companies dominate the country's manufacturing sector....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451318
South Africa used to follow a policy of import substitution, necessitated by subscription to apartheid. However, following the democratic elections of 1994, the country abandoned this policy and put in place a whole host of measures to increase its industrial competitiveness. Policy makers gave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005297688
The purpose of the paper is to analyse the role of the Indian state in promoting innovations in enterprise or manufacturing sector. The country's manufacturing sector is dominated by the Chemicals and pharmaceutical sector which also accounts for the largest share in R&D investments and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005297704
The Paper undertakes a detailed survey of the various policy instruments and institutions, which two seemingly similar economies have implemented to increase R&D investments by their respective private sector enterprises. The two economies are Singapore and Malaysia, which have both shown rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005297712
Iran's manufacturing sector has been growing very rapidly during the 1990s. Consequent to the structural reforms initiated, almost entirely due to domestic compulsions, the sector is undergoing a wave of privatisation and is also more open to foreign investments. The change over to a Republic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005297719