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Convergence in Global High Technology? / Konvergenz in der globalen Hochtechnologie? : A Decomposition and Specialisation. Analysis for Advanced Countries / Eine Dekompositions- un...

Grupp, Hariolf; Jungmittag, Andre - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 218 (1999) 5-6, pp. 552-573

Summary This paper investigates whether patterns of technological specialisation of advanced countries change over a … growth in inventive activity. Secondly, the concepts of β- and σ-despecialisation (or specialisation), which are very similar … moving towards an average specialisation. Yet, country-specific economic structures seem to remain more important as global …

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Does internet connectivity affect export performance? Evidence from the transition economies

Clarke, George R. G. - 2002

Over the past few years, many commentators have suggested that the Internet is one of the forces driving globalization. This paper tries to assess one aspect of these claims, looking at whether Internet access appears to affect the export performance of enterprises in low- and middle-income...

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Is Group Lending A Good Enforcement Scheme for Achieving High Repayment Rates?: Evidence from Field Experiments in Vietnam

Kono, Hisaki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

Microfinance institutions employ various kinds of incentive schemes but estimating the effect of each scheme is not easy due to endogeneity bias. We conducted field experiments in Vietnam to capture the role of joint liability, monitoring, cross-reporting, social sanctions, communication and...

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The First Universal Suffrage Election, at County (Gewog) Level, in Bhutan

Ura, Karma - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004

Following a Royal Edict to adopt universal suffrage in election for local government institutions, maiden elections were held in 199 gewogs (counties) in Bhutan in 2002 to elect their chief executives. This paper gives an account of this first time event in a country where most villagers had...

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The worldwide count of priority patents: A new indicator of inventive activity

van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; de … - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2012

This paper describes a new patent-based indicator of inventive activity. The indicator is based on counting all the priority patent applications filed by a country’s inventors, regardless of the patent office in which the application is filed, and can therefore be considered as a complete...

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The Worldwide Count of Priority Patents: A New Indicator of Inventive Activity

Rassenfosse, Gaétan de; Dernis, Hélène; Guellec, … - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2012

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The worldwide count of priority patents: A new indicator of inventive activity

de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Dernis, Hélène; Guellec, … - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 3, pp. 720-737

This paper describes a new patent-based indicator of inventive activity. The indicator is based on counting all the priority patent applications filed by a country's inventors, regardless of the patent office in which the application is filed, and can therefore be considered as a complete...

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Assessing the Foreign Control of Production of Technology: The Case of a Small Open Economy

Cincera, Michele; van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

International R&D activities have grown significantly over the last two decades. Both the number of actors involved, as well as the importance of the technological activity carried out abroad, has considerably increased. We aim to quantify the international generation of knowledge for the case...

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A Changing Climate: Statistical Evidence of the Intellectual Property Landscape of Clean Energy Technologies

Ghafele, Roya; Gibert, Benjamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The intellectual property (IP) system plays an important role in the development and diffusion of technologies by determining the institutional context in which transactions occur. This article reviews the recent EPO report ‘Patents and Clean Energy Technologies: Bridging the Gap between...

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Patents and Economic Growth in the Long Term. A Quantitative Approach

Ortiz-Villajos, José M - In: Brussels Economic Review 52 (2009) 3/4, pp. 305-340

The work is a quantitative analysis on the relationship between technology and economic development from data on patents from over twenty countries from the beginning of the 19th century till the end of the twentieth century. The cross section regressions between patents and per capita income...

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