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FDI-facilitated Development: The Case of the Natural Gas Industry of Trinidad and Tobago

Barclay, Lou Anne A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2003

Since the last decade, governments in less-developed countries have increasingly viewed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), as directed by the multinational enterprise (MNE), as a catalyst for economic growth and transformation. Indeed, the literature argues that FDI-assisted development occurs...

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Endogenous Economic Growth through Connectivity

Zon, Adriaan van; Mupela, Evans - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

In this paper we show the benefits of regional connectivity and specialization to growth. Starting with one region we show how welfare measured by utility per head increases as the number of connected regions increase. We assume a common connectivity infrastructure implemented by satellite,...

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Education, training and skill development policies in Sudan: Macro-micro overview

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper discusses the education, training and skill development policies in Sudan using a combination of new … enhancing the educational system, provision of training and transfer of knowledge. Different from the Sudanese literature, an … efficiency criterion related to the supply and demand sides of education and training policies in Sudan. We provide a new …

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Development and social justice: Education, training and health in Sudan

Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

of education, training and health services in Sudan. Different from Sudanese literature, we provide new contributions by … of education, training and health services in Sudan. We fill an important gap in Sudanese literature by explaining that … by 2015. We recommend further efforts to be made to improve equitable provision of education, training and health …

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Absorptive capacity in technological learning in clean development mechanism projects

Doranova, Asel; Costa, Ionara; Duysters, Geert - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

knowledge, personnel qualification, and training efforts. A strong positive association was established between prior knowledge …

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Technological spillovers from multinational presence - Towards a conceptual framework

Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

This paper undertakes a critical review of existing spillover analyses and proposes a unique analytical framework for examining technological spillovers in a manufacturing industry setting. The proposed framework overlaps three different literature strands; cluster and network dynamics,...

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Russia's emerging multinationals: trends and issues

Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

The paper focuses on the emergence of Russia's multinational companies. It aims to analyse their motives to internationalise as well as the approaches to internationalisation. While relevance of the theoretical perspectives is highlighted, the intention of the paper is to contribute to the...

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Inter-firm technology transfer: Partnership-embedded licensing or standard licensing agreements?

Hagedoorn, John; Lorenz-Orlean, Stefanie; Kranenburg, Hans - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

When companies decide to engage in technology transfer through licensing to other firms, they have two basic options: to use standard licensing contracts or to set-up more elaborate partnership-embedded licensing agreements. We find that broader partnership-embedded licensing agreements are...

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Manufacturing Response in a National System of Innovation: Evidence from the Brewing Firms in Nigeria

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2002

Employing empirical data, this study examines the innovation response of private Nigerian brewing firms to a state-induced crisis. We found that size, ownership, manufacturing skills, and technical affiliation were decisive factors in the innovation success of firms that survived and prospered...

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Innovation and Economic Development

Fagerberg, Jan; Srholec, Martin; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

Is innovation important for development? And if so, how? One popular perception of innovation, that one meets in media every day, is that has to do with developing brand new, advanced solutions for sophisticated, well-off customers, through exploitation of the most recent advances in knowledge....

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