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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Development: Lessons from Finland
Otto Toivanen At least since the 1950s it has been recognized that innovation is central to economic growth. It has also been well understood that...
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The Weightless Economy in Economic DevelopmentPart of Book Information Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth
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Owning our destiny: economic prospects for Africa
Yemi Kale is the Group Chief Economist of the African Export-Import Bank. In this editorial, he reflects on the prospects for Africa’s future...
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R&D (Re)locationThe paper builds a framework for the analysis of research and development (R&D) offshoring and outsourcing that encompasses several strands of the economics literature. It surveys the predictions from key theoretical models advanced in the literature...
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International and Intra-national Technology Spillovers and Technology Development Paths in Developing CountriesThis paper analyses the paths of technology development among regions with heterogeneous economic and technological characteristics, focusing on the case of China. It finds that intra-national technology transfer, that is, the technology transfer...
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The Market Place for IdeasThe thought that the academy might function like a ‘market place for ideas’ has been influential in the economics of science and is increasingly so in the philosophy of science/economic methodology literature. This paper contributes to this...
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National Policies to Attract FDI in R&DThis paper is part of a project based on a broad data collection of policies in selected countries, with a special focus on the attraction of foreign R&D investments. The purpose of the research is to contribute to effective policy-making, capable of...
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Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, and DevelopmentThis article first reviews the economic rationales for innovation policy. It then describes the Finnish innovation policy and policy making environment. The Finnish policy is evaluated from the point of view of fostering entrepreneurship. R&D...
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Market Concentration, Firm Size and Innovative ActivityThe economic liberalization in India was expected to boost the economy, particularly the industrial sector through faster technological development. The Schumpeterian hypothesis, which studies the relationship between market structure variables such...
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The Process of Economic ChangeA good deal is known about what makes for successful economic development, but very little is known about how to get there - that entails an understanding of the process of economic change. The paper first examines the sources of successful growth...
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The Weightless Economy in Economic DevelopmentCan the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income— the growing weightless economy—influence economic development? Those technologies reduce “distance” between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model...
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Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, and DevelopmentPart of Book Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development
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International R&D Spillovers and Economic GrowthPart of Book Information Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth
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