Browsing The 7th Globelics International Conference by Issue Date
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Transforming Africa: From Natural Resource Dependence to Sustainable Growth and Development. What Can Research Do?
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Understanding multilevel interactions in economic development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although this has been recognized in the literature for a long time, a quantitative test that explicitly considers ... -
The novelty of innovation and the level of development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Innovation has its most important impact on the economy through the diffusion of new technical knowledge, from its first worldwide implementation in the production of goods and services to its adoption and adaptation by ... -
Innovation in South African city-regions: Can we explain it?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Much innovation takes place in cities and their adjacent and linked hinterland, or city-regions. Given that city-regions can be hotbeds of innovation, it is important to understand the determinants of these ... -
Institutional innovation and inclusive growth: lessons from the coffee and palm oil sectors in Costa Rica
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This paper presents an analysis of the contribution of some institutional innovations to a more inclusive growth in the coffee and the palm oil sectors. The paper presents an historical approach, considering the concepts ... -
What are the factors driving academy-industry linkages in latecomer firms: Evidence from Mexico
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)It is now widely recognized that Universities can play a fundamental role on the performance of the firms’ innovation activities, because they are the main producers and transmitters of knowledge (Narin, Hamilton and ... -
The role of the University in Protecting and Creating Value from Indigenous Knowledge
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)In this paper we present the experiences and results found during the first phase of an action research program being conducted in Nicaragua. The research aims to find successful ways and methods that the university can ... -
Foreign Direct Investment Absorptive Capacity Theory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)By reviewing the existing literature and empirical investigation, we build a socalled Photosynthesis model which argues that a recipient developing country only achieves benefits from FDI once they have sufficient absorptive ... -
Growth and inequality: Access to advanced education under credit constraint
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This Master thesis starts by reviewing a wide strand of the literature about the linkage between growth and inequality. It then proposes an overlapping generation model with altruistic agents that are heterogeneous in ... -
Analysis of soil moisture conservation techniques with dry season maize crop on hill land at Rubirizi, Rwanda
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Rwanda is an agriculture based country where crop production is carried out under rain fed situation with wide range of agro climatic conditions. Field experiments were conducted with in-situ soil moisture conservation ... -
Les déterminants de l’adoption de l’internet en Afrique : cas de 17 pays
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)What are the factors that favor or slow down the use of the Internet in Africa? In order to answer this question, research has multiplied over the past years. This study proposes a two level hierarchical modeling of the ... -
Technology upgrading in China and Vietnam by exporting Japanese high-precision production skills
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)The transfer of technology and knowledge is an important issue for developing countries for their industrial and economic development. Japan, as a leader in high-technology-based industries, has been playing an important ... -
Academy-Industry interactions at three different stages of the linking process: Micro evidence from the perspective of both agents
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Academy-industry linkages can play an important role for economic development. Both agents can benefit from interaction, but they have a different perspective regarding the reasons to interact, the main knowledge flows and ... -
Choosing a career in Science and Technology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Student choice is the center of many discussions about higher education policy. At the same time, and regardless of the emphasis put on achieving an important endowment of graduates trained in science and engineering, ... -
Stuck in the Jam: CO₂Emissions, Growth and Technical Change in Mexico
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Decoupling economic growth from emissions of green-house gases is a major challenge for global sustainability. This relationship, mediated by product composition and the state of technology, is however a complex one. In ... -
The Optimal Prevention of Epidemics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This article studies the optimal intertemporal allocation of resources devoted to the prevention of deterministic epidemics that admit an endemic steadystate. In a stylized ‘yeoman-farmer’ economy, the dynamics of the ... -
Learning and the Creation of Innovation Capabilities in Argentina’s Auto Parts Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)The purpose of this article is to find out about the main sources and the learning and skills accumulation modalities in innovation among Argentine auto parts manufacturers. In particular: a) the way the firms follow to ... -
Knowledge-based development: The contribution of university-firm interaction in South Africa
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Over the past two decades, there have been substantive shifts in the social compact between higher education and society. Unlike the centuries old tradition of the autonomous pursuit of knowledge and science, universities ... -
Contribution, au développement, des inventions et innovations en Afrique, Potentialités et contraintes
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Do linkages between commercial farmers and academic researchers influence researcher productivity? The Mexican case
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This paper explores the effect of commercial farmers-academic researchers linkages on research productivity in fields related to agriculture. Using original data and econometric analysis, our findings show a positive and ...