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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"R&"”.
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The Organization of R&D - Sourcing Strategy, Financing and Relation to Trade
… effect is negative for most industries in the sample. The results concerning spillover effects are less robust, but there is some evidence of positive spillover effects from privately funded R&D, whereas spillovers from publicly funded R&D have an insignificant or a negative effect on an …
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Drivers of Local Firms’ Focus on Internal R&D in Emerging Economies and Their International Performance
Grounded on the resource-based view of the firm, the study of this thesis investigates the effect of four internal and external factors – engineer intensity, location, affiliation with the government, government funding – on Chinese firms’ decision to either invest in internal R&D activities or …
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Mode switching from component manufacturer to system supplier - requirements, opportunities and best practices. A resource-based reflection on R&D
Manufacturing industry is facing a dramatic transition; many enterprises find themselves caught in rapidly changing and intensified competition structures with increasing pressure to develop innovative solutions in ever shorter cycles. This issue presents a massive threat for component …
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Design for Ride Quality – Knowledge Transfer of Advanced Dynamics of Passenger Transportation Systems in Buildings for a Multi-cultural/Multi-discipline R&D Environment
This research study combines two comprehensive subjects. It considers novel knowledge about advanced machine dynamics of cabins of multi-car Passenger Transportation Systems (PTS) and the interaction of learning preferences and modern communication channels to propose a state-of-the-art concept for …
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The Role of Heterogeneous Research and Development Funds in The Productivity of The u.s. Manufacturing Industry (United States)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate, in the framework of firm's optimal behavior, the effect of company-funded and federally-funded R&D on productivity in selected U.S. industries. Especially, the role of federal funding R&D in productivity through direct as well as indirect mechanisms is …
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Influence of performance measurement towards construction research and development
The UK construction industry is being challenged to produce economically, socially and environmentally acceptable products; to satisfy its stakeholders, to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the construction processes and to address resource constraints and sustainable goals. In this context …
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Establishing the potential for identifying Knowledge Transfer in Human Resource Recruitment and Selection practices: The perspective of academic staff at a university in the UAE
… followed by semi-structured interviews. The sample comprised 85 survey respondents and 18 interview participants, in a university of about 350 academics.<br/>The survey findings provided valuable pointers regarding the current state of R&S and KT practice as well as the possibility of …
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Synthesizing existing evidence and leveraging expert opinions to develop a university, for-profit, and not-for-profit organization partnership model to address health professions education gaps through simulation-based education
Healthcare providers in rural and remote (R&R) areas of Canada do not have the same access to skills development and maintenance opportunities as those in urban areas. Simulation-based education (SBE) is an optimal technique to allow healthcare providers to develop and maintain skills. However, SBE …
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Business Cycle Models with Embodied Technological Change and Poisson Shocks
… spending for consumption and financing of R&amp;D. The probability of a technology invention occurring is an increasing function of aggregate R&amp;D expenditure in the whole economy. New technologies bring higher productivity, but rather than applying to the whole capital stock, they require …
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Political Factors Predicting Renewable Energy Research and Development Levels: Mixed Results in Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development Countries from 1990-2000.
The goal of this paper is to determine why some Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries allocate more public expenditure to research and development of renewable energy than others. This is attempted by offering a comparative analysis of the commitment to renewable …
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Three empirical essays on foreign direct investment, research and development, and insurance
This dissertation consists of three independent essays, all of which are empirical treatments<br/>of different determinants of economic growth.<br/><br/>The first essay, which is in Chapter 2, evaluates the role economic freedom plays<br/>in mediating the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) …
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ESTIMATION OF UNITED STATES IMPORT DEMAND AND EXPORT SUPPLY IN A MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT MODEL, USING HUMAN CAPITAL AND R & D AS FACTORS OF PRODUCTION (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT)
<p>Traditionally the estimation of the import and export functions has been done by specifying either linear or loglinear functions of some income and relative price variables then using, usually, ordinary least squares technique. This procedure is subject to a wide range of criticisms due to its …
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Trade and the environment: A game-theoretic analysis of the linkages.
This thesis attempts to analyze some prominent linkages between trade and the environment. More specifically, the thesis seeks to elucidate the endogenous determination of environmental policies in the context of North-South and North-North relations when pollution generated in one country can …
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Exploring innovation within low and medium technology SMEs: a qualitative study of Irish food companies
R&D is a key determinant of innovation and yet Low and Medium Technology (LMT) industries by their definition, do not invest heavily in this driver of innovation. Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) account for the majority of enterprises, contributing significantly to economic output, …
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The economics of patent litigation: an empirical analysis in the U.S. from 1996 to 2010
I investigate the economics of patent litigation and various court outcomes involving patent lawsuits from 1996 to 2010 in the U.S. by linking patent litigation data from the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) to patent data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and litigants' …
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Strategic alliances: value creation and appropriation mechanisms, configuration, and portfolio evolution
… a challenge of the research is to revamp a key research stream in the alliance literature (i.e., alliance configuration) by examining the combinatory effects that inevitably occur among these factors; (III) to explore the features that epitomize alliance strategy with regards to the …
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Uncovering key actors in the marketing-firm value link
The objective of this dissertation is to provide insights on key actors who affect the link between marketing and firm value. The first essay examines financial analysts who provide earnings estimates about firms, thereby connecting firm and the stock market. The author uncovers whether and how …
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Essays on the effects of human capital, innovation and technology on economic performance
… HC, and creative class data are drawn from the Sample of Integrated Labor Market Biographies (SIAB 1975–2008) and from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany which cover the years 1998–2008 inclusive for 394 administrative regions (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics – NUTS3). …
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The sub Saharan Africa Cotton Sector. Selected Features
Though cotton only represents a very small share in world merchandise trade, it is an indispensable commodity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Productivity and profitability of cotton production and processing are key determinants of growth in cotton producing countries. This study analyses the SSA …
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