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Determinants of machinery firms' innovation activity : case study from the Czech Republic
Prokop, Viktor; Stejskal, Jan - 2015
machinery industry. Nothing has received as much attention as innovation, which has been pinpointed as the fundamental driving … force for economic growth and welfare as well as a key factor in competitiveness. Therefore, innovation growth is seen as a … mechanism to influence economic growth, and therefore firms capable of increasing their innovation potential benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478178
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398011
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Motivating innovation in a knowledge economy with tax incentives
D'Andria, Diego; Savin, Ivan - 2015
In the past decades the role of profit sharing schemes (PSS) as a way to foster innovation in a principal-agent context …, and more generally of innovation in economic growth, have been widely acknowledged and studied. However, surprisingly … innovation in a pure knowledge economy: a "patent box" incentive and a tax incentive on compensation earned by agents as PSS. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483411
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Knowledge economy infrastructure formation in the northern regions of the Russian Federation
Zhideleva, Valentina; Sedusova, Natalia - 2015
When we consider knowledge economy as the top level of innovative economical development and the basis for the scientific knowledge, there is a need to make a favorable environment that might provide its efficient function. Knowledge economy that follows postindustrial society includes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479972
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Knowledge-driven economic growth : the case of Sub-Saharan Africa
Oluwatobi, Stephen; Olurinola, Isaiah Oluranti; Alege, … - 2018
capital in SSA mitigate the effect of innovation on economic growth in the region, thus, making it a lean knowledge economy. …
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Innovation and precarity : workplace discourse in twenty-first century capitalism
Rothstein, Sidney A. - 2019
This paper analyzes discourse in the workplace in order to explain puzzling patterns of precarity in twenty-first century capitalism. Tech workers' central role in digital transformation endows them with labor market power reflected by their high wages, but during economic downturns, when demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099371
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401020
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Leveraging service sector growth in the Philippines
Mitra, Raja Mikael - 2013
The Philippines is often referred to as a country from which export of services rather than manufactured goods is the principal engine for economic growth, as the share of the service sector in gross domestic product has exceeded that of the industry sector since the mid-1980s. Three major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192337
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Mobile phone innovation and technology-driven exports in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
The study investigates how education, scientific output and the internet complement mobile phone penetration to affect technology commodity exports in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following main findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737401
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Intra firm networks in the German knowledge economy : economic performance of German agglomerations from a relational perspective
Bentlage, Michael; Thierstein, Alain - 2011
Flows and inter-linkages between and within polycentric metropolitan regions have become a fundamental topic in regional sciences. The knowledge economy as a primary driver of spatial restructuring is forming these relations by generating knowledge within a spatially fine graded division of...
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