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This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of high-skilled individuals - i.e., inventors - on international technological collaborations. By means of gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive activity between a group of industrialized...
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The last two decades have seen a lot research devoted to understanding the economic impact of telecoms infrastructure; however, the explosion of mobile technology, especially in the last decade, has received much less attention. This study addresses important evidence gaps by considering the...
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rapid innovation cycle. Nonetheless, we are able to identify functions that enable rich interactions among consumers and … Applications (RIAs). Their constant innovation implies that they develop from baseline communications channels to applications that … strive for framework conditions that enable or even better facilitate innovation as well as dynamic competition. Ultimately …
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in regional clusters. This challenge is even greater for its critically important innovation activities, including … approach of 'paper trail' of the industry's innovation process as revealed in patents and scientific publications. By using … networks, a detailed picture of the photovoltaic industry innovation and its constituent regional clusters is constructed. This …
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regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on openness. The study distinguishes between …
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theme of the ISS 2018 was "Innovation, Catch-up, and Sustainable Development". Keun Lee, one of the guest editors of this …
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Drawing upon the literature on environmental innovation and social metabolism, this paper investigates whether …
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A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9 million...
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Certainly the current crisis is affecting seriously the convergence process in EU. Starting from the spatial distribution in EU of some fundamental development indicators before the current crisis, we try to estimate the impact of the prolonged crisis. During last years, the less developed...
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Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to be associated with higher per capita GDP growth rates...
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