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Catching up or standing still? National innovative productivity among 'follower' countries, 1978-1999

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The last two decades have witnessed extraordinary growth of formerly industrializing economies and historical imitator countries that have achieved levels of maturity that is greater than those economies that were historically more innovative. This growth is investigated specially against historically more productive countries that are facing relative declines in innovative productivity. Development of innovation-enhancing policies and infrastructures are essential for achieving innovative leadership, but that these are insufficient unless coupled with ever increasing financial and human capital investments in innovation.

Australia, Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Industrialized Countries, Laws, regulations and rules, Industrial nations

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Optimal dispersion of R&D activities in multinational corporations with a genetic algorithm

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A new communication-economic network model is presented to predict the allocation of Research &Development (R&D) activities in MNCs. The multi-dimensional approach captures the information flows and employs a genetic algorithm to find a dispersion of R&D activities in which the problem of international communication have the least negative impact.

Management dynamics, Labor Distribution by Employer, Management, Statistics, Company business management, Genetic algorithms, International communication, International communications

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The disaggregated technology production function: a new model of university and corporate research

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The impact of technological innovations of universities in the early stages of research on research and development policy of government is examined.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Innovations, Universities and colleges

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