Browsing The 5th Globelics Academy by Title
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Accelerating the formation of regional systems of innovation in Mexico? Understanding the effects of the Technology Business Accelerator Program in the formation of resources and capabilities to innovate in Mexican regions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)In 2004 the Mexican Government launched the Technology Business Accelerator (TechBA) program, an initiative that seeks to help the best small and medium Mexican technology companies to access and compete in international ... -
Are KIBS more than intermediate inputs? An examination into their R&D diffuser role in Europe
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)It is widely accepted that knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are key agents in knowledge diffusion. Thanks in part to information technologies, an increasing internationalisation process has been taking place ... -
Building knowledge base through R&D networking: Enterprises in the Regional University Knowledge Centre for Vehicle Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)The socio-economic importance of networks is nowadays evident and researchers from different disciplines try to shed light on their background, characteristics and impact but there are still a lot do and research. Networks ... -
China's Innovation System and the Move Towards Harmonious Growth and Endogenous Innovation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Observers around the world are impressed by the rapid growth of China’s economy, some with hope and others with fear. Some hope that China will offer the unique experience of successful economic growth and catch-up under ... -
Comparing approaches to systems of innovation: Confronting to the Chinese telecommunication sector
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)This paper identifies and compares three approaches to study systems of innovation, namely, the national innovation system (NIS), the regional innovation system (RIS), and the sectoal innovation system/technological ... -
Design, implementation & analysis of innovation surveys: with a note on presenting results
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Determinants of Knowledge Transfer from Multinational Corporations to Local Firms: The Case of Turkish Automotive Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Transfer of advanced technological knowledge from foreign direct investments (FDIs) is considered as an important mode of “learning” and “technological upgrading” for developing countries which are generally associated ... -
Discussing innovation and development: Converging points between the Latin American school and the Innovation Systems perspective?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)From the 1950s to the 1970s the central preoccupations of the international research and policy agenda was to come to terms with underdevelopment. During this period a theoretical framework– structuralism - shaped the ... -
Divergent Paths of Actors and Policy Learning: A Comparative Study of the Oil Palm Systems of Innovation in Malaysia and Nigeria
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Fifty years ago the two regions and the two tropical countries under study were rural peasantries with low living standards. On the one hand one set of countries have advanced into export-oriented manufacturing industries ... -
Drivers of national innovative systems in transition. An Eastern European empirical cross-country analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Innovation plays a crucial role in determining todayﾒs economic growth patterns. But what enables some countries to innovate more than others? This paper employs in premiere a panel of sixteen Eastern European countries ... -
Emergence of the Biofuel Sector in Brazil and in the US – The Role of Innovation Policy with focus on Public Procurement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Biofuel is an issue that currently receives much attention worldwide due to its potential for lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emission rates from transport and because the currently high, and still rising, oil prices have ... -
Entrepreneurship and Regional Growth in Portugal
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Scientific literature linked to New Growth Theory field and to the Neo- Schumpeterian one always have tried (with some success) to link innovation to regional growth, but the link between knowledge creation and growth ... -
Evolutionary Economic Theory and the National Innovation System Perspective for an Integrated African National Structural Transformation
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Factors that determine the impact of innovation-oriented policies in firms: Conceptual and Methodological Formulation of Research Project
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)This is a draft version of a proposal for a conceptual and methodological approach that seeks to answer the question of which are the most important factors that, from a micro-economical standpoint, determine the impact ... -
Financial System, Corporate Diversification and Technological Catching-up: South-Korea; an imitator to innovator
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Schumpeter emphasized ( 1943) that those who are starting “new things”, or innovating need to be provided with “profits for above what are necessary in order to introduce the corresponding investment” He argued that ... -
Financing of industrial innovations in India, Measuring the effectiveness of tax incentives for R&D
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Firms Strategies in Alternative Firms Strategies in Alternative Energy Markets
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Forms of Knowledge, Modes of Innovation and Innovation Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Inspired by the concepts tacit and codified knowledge introduced by Polanyi, this paper makes a distinction between two modes of innovation. On the one hand there are innovation strategies (Science, Technology, and Innovation, ... -
From Economics of Knowledge to the Learning Economy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)This chapter is about the production, diffusion and use of knowledge seen in an economic perspective. Fundamental distinctions between tacit and explicit knowledge and between knowhow, know-why, know-what and know-who are ... -
Going against the grain: the dematurity of the European textile industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)The paper investigates the process of transition of the European textile industry away from being a mature industry towards a more knowledge-based one. The European industry has fallen into what Abernathy (1978, 1983) ...