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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....
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The paper uses data from a recent survey on Brazilian firms to investigate the role of technology in the … these days, and their technology-seeking purpose is a strong driver for the internationalization, as firms are searching for … decisions to invest in developed destinations. We found out that technology is an asset used as a competitive resource, and that …
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economies are dependent not exclusively on the technology and knowledge that multinational corporations are willing to transfer … levels of technological capabilities, calculated by means of the second Argentinean innovation survey, which was carried out … clear when the local generation of knowledge and technology is considered. In general terms, the analytical exercise made …
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This paper looks at the role of firms in the transformation of fossil fuel based energy systems towards cleaner and greener energy systems. Firms are playing an important role in determining the speed and direction of technical change towards such energy systems. But systemic constraints and...
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This paper deals with the interplay between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the industrial and innovation policies …
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The fundamental problem in the field of the economics of innovation is which economic subjects are the sources of … sources of General-Purpose Technologies GPTs in a Schumpeterian world of innovation-based competition. Through an inductive …-driven innovation. International conflict is the context that spurs the GPTs, which are driven by global leadership of critical …
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Frame and Carpenter 1979 analysed the pattern of international research collaboration among scientific fields in 1970s. Starting from this pioneering work, this paper investigates international collaborations over 1997-2012 and compares the critical results with earlier studies to detect the...
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, in combination with the expectation of a future switch towards another technology, may actually reduce current investment … in that technology (while temporarily increasing current investment in competing technologies). The latter enables … that technology at the time of the switch. …
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, Brazil and China, with the purpose to understand the role of Governments and technology in the internationalisation …
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, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan. Our findings are consistent with the stylized facts in the new … the positive complementary relationships between technology, skill and upskilling. Different from the Sudanese literature … skill indicators; between skill, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators and industrial performance indicators …
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