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 ... -
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 ... -
On firm investment in innovation and corporate social responsability in the presence of activists
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Defining firm investment in reduction of damages generated in the process of innovation as a form of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the paper identifies the determinants of such CSR investment, the emergence of an ... -
Below the radar: What does innovation in the Asian driver economies have to offer other low income economies?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)However pressing the distributional concerns of redressing inequality and overcoming poverty are in the short-run, in the long run meeting the development needs of humankind requires economic growth. This much is indisputable, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Trends in rainfall and economic growth in Africa: A neglected cause of the African growth tragedy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)We examine the role of trends in rainfall in the poor growth performance of sub-Saharan African nations relative to other developing countries. To do so we use a new cross-country panel climatic data set in an empirical ... -
Impacts of balanced nutrient management systems technologies in the Northern Guinea savanna of Nigeria
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)As part of a major effort to address soil fertility decline in West Africa, a project on balanced nutrient management systems (BNMS) has been implemented in the northern Guinea savanna (NGS) of Nigeria. The project has ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
University-industry R&D collaboration in the automotive, biotechnology and electronics firms in Malaysia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This paper seeks to examine the drivers of R&D collaboration between firms and universities and research institutes using a sample of automotive, biotechnology and electronics firms from Malaysia. The Probit regression ... -
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 ... -
Une analyse empirique de la rentabilité privée de l’education au Cameroun : estimation d’un modèle tobit de type III structurel
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Cet article effectue une analyse empirique des taux de rendements privés de l’éducation au Cameroun à travers un modèle Tobit de type III structurel. En effet, le contexte du marché du travail au Cameroun est caractérisé ... -
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 ... -
Firm productivity and exports: Evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. ... -
Sustainable and Unsustainable Agriculture in Ghana and Nigeria: 1960 – 2009
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)The agricultural sector of African economies has faced considerable challenges within the past 50 years or so. Although agricultural production on the continent rose by an annual average of 2% between 1965 and 1980 and has ... -
Impact of Imported Intermediate and Capital Goods on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments ... -
The patterns of AIDS' effects on growth and human capital : evidence from Africa and theory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)The paper presents empirical evidence of AIDS epidemic effects on demography variables and accumulable factors. Using a panel of 47 Sub-Saharan African countries, we show that AIDS has negative and significant effect on ... -
Linkage between Indigenous Agriculture and Sustainable Development – Evidences from Two Hill Communities in Northeast India
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Sustainable food production system is the key to sustainable development especially for hill communities where agriculture is the mainstay of economy. History shows that human societies that can protect their livelihood-based ...