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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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 ... -
Les communautés de connaissance : leviers de changement organisationnel pour le manager et l’entrepreneur
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Education de la mère et la santé de son enfant : évidence pour le monde rural du Sénégal
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Avec un taux de mortalité infantile de 157 morts pour 1000 naissances vivantes, l’Afrique subsaharienne représente environ la moitié des décès des enfants de moins de cinq ans dans les pays en développement. Au Sénégal, ... -
Outputs of innovation systems: accounting what comes out of the system
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This paper focuses upon the performance of innovation systems from an output perspective. Innovation performance measurement is considered as increasingly interesting by several scholars during last years. It is also ... -
Innovation policies for development: towards a systemic experimentation based approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This paper sheds light on how to address, conceptualize and design innovation policies taking into account the specific characteristics of innovation systems in developing countries. The main purpose is to reflect on the ... -
Argentine soybean production: the outlier in a weak innovative environment
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)During the last decade, Argentine soybean production showed a high rate of innovation, as farmers adopted state of the art technologies associated with biotechnology without important lags regarding their international ... -
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 ... -
Exploring the Technologies of Laboratory Science for Social Change: an Examination of the Nigerian Healthcare System
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Contemporary healthcare constitutes a critical response to the dilemma of health and disease that is partly instinctual and partly organizational. Although Africa faces a number of daunting health challenges, an essential ... -
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 ... -
From isolation to openness: knowledge flows promoting innovation –evidence from South Africa’s Innovation Survey 2005
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Les déterminants de la viabilité financière
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Industrialisation as an engine of growth in developing countries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This paper examines the emergence of manufacturing in developing countries in the period 1950-2005. It presents new data on structural change in a sample of 63 developing countries and 16 advanced economies. Industrialisation ... -
Patterns of Agricultural Growth and Overall growth of Ugandan Economy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This study aimed at establishing simple stylized facts on relationships between the share of agriculture and its subsectors in GDP and GDP per capita in Uganda. The study utilized both trend and regression analysis tools ... -
Estimating the returns to education in Cameroon informal sector
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This paper discusses the returns to schooling in Cameroon within the informal sector. This is to evaluate to what extent having followed the basic education successfully influence the hourly earnings of workers in the ... -
Drivers and Barriers of Innovation Dynamics in Healthcare Towards a framework for analyzing innovation in Tuberculosis control in India
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Tuberculosis remains the biggest infectious killer in India and worldwide, and it has recently regained substantial international attention with its come-back in drug resistant forms. The environment, the disease and the ... -
The Shortage of Medical Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Substitution Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Substitution policies are strategies sometimes chosen in Sub-Saharan Africa for curtailing the shortage of health professionals especially caused by the outflow of medical personnel. The aim of our contribution is to propose ... -
What determines production and utilization of research for development?: The case of the Moroccan Ministry of Finance
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)The paper deals with the issue of research production and utilization in the policy process, centering on the case of the Moroccan Ministry of Finance. After a critical review of the recent literature on this front, we ... -
Innovation surveys and innovation policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)In the late 1980s scholars of technological change were concerned about measuring more aspects of innovation than the mere information contained in the R&D surveys. They sat down under the auspices of the Organization of ... -
Formation of tax strategy of innovative development of national economy of Byelorussia: Tax policy as the tool of development of innovative economy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)The effective way of development of national economy is defined by leading value of scientific and technical progress and intellectualization of major factors of manufacture. On a share of the new knowledge embodied in ...