Browsing The 6th Globelics International Conference by Issue Date
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Patterns of universities-firms interaction in Brazil in four industrial sectors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper investigates university-firms interactions in Brazil four industrial sectors. The sectors analyzed are: chemical and drugs, metal-mechanics, electro-electronics and wood and furniture. The investigation is ... -
Can innovation systems help solve the food crisis? Experiences with international agricultural research and policy
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Problems and perspectives in the construction of the knowledge Society in Latina American and the Caribbean
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Politics of technology and economic development: Tracing the roots of the absence of NSI in the Philippines
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Sources of technological opportunity in Brazil
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper aims to assess the relevance of different sources of TO for Brazilian industries and to compare the results with those obtained in science-frontier countries. The paper uses micro level data from PINTEC (2003). ... -
FDI in R&D: What the MNC's subsidiaries are doing in Brazil?
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University, innovation and society: Cuban higher education in the national system of innovation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)In this document we state that Cuban higher education exerts a prominent role in the national innovation system. It provides a high level education and trains the university graduates and most of the postgraduate training ... -
University and their contribution to innovation: Inferences from Brazilian cases
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)The university firm relationship is an important aspect of the process of innovation and deserves increasing attention from policymakers and public. They are very heterogeneous contributions given by universities to this ... -
The Agro-Food Sector in Catch-up Countries: A Comparative Study from Sectoral Systems Perspective
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Global systems of innovation: Water supply and sanitation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)Innovation is a process of problem solving. In its broadest sense, innovation means doing things in new ways. When conditions change and routines no longer work, humans experiment and learn. In a narrower sense, innovation ... -
Absorptive capacity of information and knowledge through Interfaces in the customized software industry: the case of micro and small-sized Mexican firms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper contributes the understanding of how interface allows to the producers identify specific information and knowledge from the users (and other agents), and how it influences on firm’s absorptive capacity. We suppose ... -
Endogenous Competences and Linkages Development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)In this paper we analyze empirically the influence of firms' endogenous competences in the existence, quality and results of the linkages between firms and different types of agents. Using survey data from 170 firms ... -
Assessing innovation networks in nanotechnology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)Nanotechnology is regarded as the key technology for the 21st century, affecting almost every aspect of the economy. It has a great potential to stimulate various industries through the advancement of science and technology. ... -
Panel Discussion: Microeconomic learning and macroeconomic policies
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An Investigation on the Contribution of Universities and Research Institutes for Maturing the Brazilian Innovation System
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)The positive feedbacks between science and technology are decisive features of mature innovation systems (Cohen et al, 2002). The literature on National Systems of Innovation (NSI) and on recent successful catch up ... -
An investigation on the contribution of universities and research institutes for maturing the Brazilian innovation system
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Does University Reform Promote Innovation? : University-Industry Links in the Reform Era in Japan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)In this paper, engineering and bio-science faculty within the University of Tokyo will be the subject of analysis for assessing the compatibility of research activities between faculty and industry and faculty participation ... -
The problem of financing innovation activity in Russia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)The general aim of this paper is to identify the role and significance of the innovation activity as effective instruments of economic development and structural change. The role and significance of the scientific-and-te ... -
Innovation and Export Dynamics in the Argentine Soybean Production Chain: a Study in Micro-Macro Interactions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)It is difficult to find a field of macroeconomics in which experts can disregard Argentina. Researchers that focus on economic growth have compared Argentina with Japan or Australia, concluding that the former had experienced ... -
Cyclical Analysis of India’s Economic Growth: Is Service Sector Catching up?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper analyses the cyclical fluctuations of economic growth in India emphasizing upon the service sector for the period 1952 to 2006. Using Hodrick and Prescott (HP) Filter method, we estimate the trend components ...