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Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Development: A Finnish ViewFrom the book: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Industrial policy SubsidiesBook Chapter
National Policies to Attract FDI in R&D: An Assessment of Brazil and Selected CountriesFrom the book: Southern Engines of Global Growth
Industrial policy Foreign investments Research (Technological innovations)Working Paper
Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Development: A Finnish ViewThis article first reviews the economic rationales for innovation policy. It then describes the Finnish innovation policy and policy making environment. The Finnish policy is evaluated from the point of view of fostering entrepreneurship...
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Industrial policy SubsidiesBlog
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Development: Lessons from Finland
Otto Toivanen At least since the 1950s it has been recognized that innovation is central to economic growth. It has also been well understood that innovations both generate and rely on externalities...
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Research (Technological innovations) Industrial policyWorking Paper
R&D (Re)location: A Bird’s Eye (Re)viewThe paper builds a framework for the analysis of research and development (R&D) offshoring and outsourcing that encompasses several strands of the economics literature...
Contracting out International business enterprises Knowledge managementWorking Paper
International and Intra-national Technology Spillovers and Technology Development Paths in Developing Countries: The Case of ChinaThis paper analyses the paths of technology development among regions with heterogeneous economic and technological characteristics, focusing on the case of China...
Convergence Regional economics Management (Technological innovations)Working Paper
National Policies to Attract FDI in R&D: An Assessment of Brazil and Selected CountriesThis paper is part of a project based on a broad data collection of policies in selected countries, with a special focus on the attraction of foreign R&D investments...
Industrial policy Foreign investments Research (Technological innovations)Working Paper
Market Concentration, Firm Size and Innovative Activity: A Firm-level Economic Analysis of Selected Indian Industries under Economic LiberalizationThe economic liberalization in India was expected to boost the economy, particularly the industrial sector through faster technological development...
Austrian school of economics Business enterprises Technological innovationsWorking Paper
The Market Place for Ideas: An Analysis of Knowledge Diffusion in Academic JournalsThe thought that the academy might function like a ‘market place for ideas’ has been influential in the economics of science and is increasingly so in the philosophy of science/economic methodology literature...
Econometrics Research (Education, Higher) Experimental designBook Chapter
The Weightless Economy in Economic DevelopmentFrom the book: Information Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth
Economic development Economic growth IndustrializationBook Chapter
International R&D Spillovers and Economic GrowthFrom the book: Information Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth
Econometric models (Economic development) Economic growth Information technologyBook Chapter
The Process of Economic ChangeFrom the book: Social Provision in Low-Income Countries
Economic development Economic growth Institutional economicsWorking Paper
The Weightless Economy in Economic DevelopmentCan the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income— the growing weightless economy—influence economic development? Those technologies reduce “distance” between consumers and knowledge production...
Economic development Economic growth IndustrializationWorking Paper
The Process of Economic ChangeA good deal is known about what makes for successful economic development, but very little is known about how to get there - that entails an understanding of the process of economic change...
Economic development Economic growth Institutional economics