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2009

2009-067 Technological activities and their impact on the financial performance of the firm: Exploitation and exploration within and between firms
René Belderbos, Dries Faems, Bart Leten & B. van Looy
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2009-066 Does Excellence in Academic Research Attract Foreign R&D?
René Belderbos, Bart Leten & Shinya Suzuki
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2009-065 Persistence of and interrelation between horizontal and vertical technology alliances
René Belderbos, Victor Gilsing & Boris Lokshin
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2009-064 A structural nonparametric reappraisal of the CO2 emissions-income relationship
Théophile T. Azomahou, Micheline Goedhuys & P. Nguyen Van
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2009-063 Assessing risk discourses: Nano S&T in the Global South
Minna Kanerva
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2009-062 Systems of Innovation
Luc Soete, Bart Verspagen & Bas ter Weel
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2009-061 Inactions and Spikes of Investment in Ethiopian Manufacturing Firms: Empirical Evidence on Irreversibility and Non-convexities
Mulu Gebreeyesus
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2009-060 A Different Look at Inward FDI into Mainland China
Ying Zhang
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2009-059 Technology frontier, labor productivity and economic growth: Evidence from OECD countries
Théophile T. Azomahou, Bity Diene & Mbaye Diene
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2009-058 Tacit Knowledge and Innovation Capacity: Evidence from the Indian Livestock Sector
R. Sulaiman, T. Laxmi, Andy Hall & Jeroen Dijkman
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2009-057 From Quantity to Quality: Challenges for Investment Promotion Agencies
Sergey Filippov & José Guimón
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2009-056 R&D Behaviour and the Emergence of Fat-Tailed Firm Size Distributions
Zakaria Babutsidze
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2009-055 Is that Innovation? Assessing Examples of Revitalized Economic Dynamics among Clusters of Small Producers in Northern Vietnam
Jaap Voeten, Job de Haan & Gerard de Groot
This paper was presented at the UNU-WIDER and UNU-MERIT Research Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Development, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 30–31 October 2008. This paper is also published as UNU-WIDER Working Paper 20.
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2009-054 Incubators as Tools for Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries
Semih Akçomak
This paper was presented at the UNU-WIDER and UNU-MERIT Research Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Development, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 30–31 October 2008. This paper is also published as a UNU-WIDER Working Paper.
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2009-053 Innovation and Microenterprises Growth in Ethiopia
Mulu Gebreeyesus
This paper was presented at the UNU-WIDER and UNU-MERIT Research Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Development, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 30–31 October 2008. This paper is also published as UNU-WIDER Working Paper 20.
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2009-052 Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Development
David B. Audretsch & Mark Sanders
This paper was presented at the UNU-WIDER and UNU-MERIT Research Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Development, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 30–31 October 2008. This paper is also published as UNU-WIDER Working Paper 20.
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2009-051 The Growth of Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship in India, 1991–2007
Sunil Mani
This paper was presented at the UNU-WIDER and UNU-MERIT Research Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Development, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 30–31 October 2008. This paper is also published as UNU-WIDER Working Paper 20.
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2009-050 Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Development: A Finnish View
O. Toivanen
This paper was presented at the UNU-WIDER and UNU-MERIT Research Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Development, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 30–31 October 2008. This paper is also published as a UNU-WIDER Working Paper.
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2009-049 Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Erik Stam & André van Stel
This paper was presented at the UNU-WIDER and UNU-MERIT Research Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Development, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 30–31 October 2008. This paper is also published as UNU-WIDER Working Paper 20.
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2009-048 Firm Ownership, FOEs, and POEs
Alice H. Amsden
This paper was presented at the UNU-WIDER and UNU-MERIT Research Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Development, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 30–31 October 2008. This paper is also published as UNU-WIDER Working Paper 20.
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2009-047 Environmental innovation: Using qualitative models to identify indicators for policy
Minna Kanerva, Anthony Arundel & René Kemp
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2009-046 What Do Complex Adaptive Systems Look Like and What Are the Implications for Innovation Policy?
Andy Hall & N. Clark
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2009-045 Inertia, Interaction and Clustering in Demand
Zakaria Babutsidze & Robin Cowan
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2009-044 FDI, R&D and Innovation Output in the Chinese Automobile Industry
Fang Chen & Pierre Mohnen
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2009-043 Explaining the lack of dynamics in the diffusion of small stationary fuel cells
Bert Droste-Franke, Jörg Krüger, Stephan Lingner & Thomas Ziesemer
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2009-042 Fits and Misfits: Technological Matching and R&D Networks
Robin Cowan, Nicolas Jonard & Bulat Sanditov
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2009-041 Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe
Ying Zhang & Sergey Filippov
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2009-040 Innovation dynamics in Tuberculosis control in India: The shift to new partnerships
Nora Engel
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2009-039 Alliance-based Network View on Chinese Firms’ Catching-up: Case Study of Huawei Technologies Co.Ltd
Ying Zhang
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2009-038 How productive are academic researchers in agriculture-related sciences? The Mexican case
René Rivera, José Luis Sampedro, Gabriela Dutrenit, Javier Mario Ekboir & Alexandre Vera Cruz
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2009-037 Caste as Community? Networks of social affinity in a South Indian village
Saurabh Arora & Bulat Sanditov
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2009-036 Innovation for the base of the pyramid: Critical perspectives from development studies on heterogeneity and participation
Saurabh Arora & H. Romijn
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2009-035 Reverse knowledge transfer and its implications for European policy
Rajneesh Narula & Julie Michel
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2009-034 Student Network Centrality and Academic Performance: Evidence from United Nations University
Ying Zhang, Iman Rajabzadeh & Rodolfo Lauterbach
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2009-033 Attracting and embedding R&D by multinational firms: policy recommendations for EU new member states
Rajneesh Narula
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2009-032 Innovation and Economic Development
Jan Fagerberg, Martin Srholec & Bart Verspagen
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2009-031 Preparing for the Next, Very Long Crisis: Towards a ‘Cool’ Science and Technology Policy Agenda For a Globally Warming Economy
Paul A. David
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2009-030 Malthus' Revenge
Luc Soete
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2009-029 Innovative Sales, R&D and Total Innovation Expenditures: Panel Evidence on their Dynamics
Wladimir Raymond, Pierre Mohnen, Franz Palm & Sybrand Schim van der Loeff
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2009-028 Growth with imported resources: On the sustainability of U.S. growth and foreign debt
Thomas Ziesemer
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2009-027 Designing plans for organizational development, lessons from three large-scale SME-initiatives
Tinne Lommelen, Friso den Hertog, Lien Beck & Raf Sluismans
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2009-026 The Impact of the Credit Crisis on Poor Developing Countries: Growth, worker remittances, accumulation and migration
Thomas Ziesemer
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2009-025 Compliance with the private standards and capacity building of national institutions under globalization: new agendas for developing countries?
Michiko Iizuka & Yari Borbon-Galvez
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2009-024 Why Rural Rich Remain Energy Poor
Bilal Mirza & René Kemp
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2009-023 Multinational enterprises, development and globalisation: Some clarifications and a research agenda
Rajneesh Narula & John Dunning
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2009-022 Network-independent partner selection and the evolution of innovation networks
Joel Baum, Robin Cowan & Nicolas Jonard
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2009-021 Foreign Direct Investment in Times of Global Economic Crisis: Spotlight on New Europe
Sergey Filippov & Kálmán Kalotay
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2009-020 Collinearity in growth regressions: The example of worker remittances
Thomas Ziesemer
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2009-019 Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?
Lawrence Klerkx, Andy Hall & Cees Leeuwis
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2009-018 Learning How to Consume and Returns to Product Promotion
Zakaria Babutsidze
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2009-017 Measuring eco-innovation
Anthony Arundel & René Kemp
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2009-016 Stochastic environmental effects, demographic variation, and economic growth
Théophile T. Azomahou & T. Mishra
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2009-015 Knowledge Base Determinants of Technology Sourcing in the Clean Development Mechanism Projects
Asel Doranova, Ionara Costa & Geert Duysters
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2009-014 What does it take for an R&D tax incentive policy to be effective?
P. Mohnen & Boris Lokshin
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2009-013 The Diffusion of Informal Knowledge and Innovation Performance: A sectoral approach
Abraham Garcia & Hugo Hollanders
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2009-012 Habit Formation, Demand and Growth through product innovation
Abraham Garcia
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2009-011 The motivations, organisation and outcomes of university-industry interaction in the Netherlands
Isabel Bodas Freitas & Bart Verspagen
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2009-010 Industrialisation as an engine of growth in developing countries
Adam Szirmai
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2009-009 Are International Market Demands Compatible with Serving Domestic Social Needs? Challenges in Strengthening Innovation Capacity in Kenya’s Horticulture Industry
Mirjam Steglich, Ekin Keskin, Andy Hall & Jeroen Dijkman
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2009-008 Thinking locally: Exploring the importance of a subsidiary-centered model of FDI-related spillovers in Brazil
Anabel Marin & Ionara Costa
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2009-007 Remittances, lagged dependent variables and migration stocks as determinants of migration from developing countries
Thomas Ziesemer
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2009-006 The role of consumption and the financing of health investment under epidemic shocks
Théophile T. Azomahou, Bity Diene & Luc Soete
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2009-005 Consumer behaviour: evolution of preferences and the search for novelty
Abraham Garcia
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2009-004 Standards as a platform for innovation and learning in the global economy: a case study of Chilean salmon farming industry
Michiko Iizuka
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2009-003 The Role of Firms in Energy Transformation
Radhika Mia
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2009-002 Bridges in social capital: A review of the definitions and the social capital of social capital researchers
Semih Akçomak
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2009-001 Effectiveness of R&D Tax Incentives in Small and Large Enterprises in Québec
Rufin Baghana & Pierre Mohnen
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