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2010-051: Global excellence at the expense of local relevance, or a bridge between two worlds? Research in science and technology in the developing world

Helena Barnard, Robin Cowan and Moritz Muller

2010-050: Efficient Development Portfolio Design for Sub Saharan Africa

Adriaan van Zon and Kirsten Wiebe

2010-049: Bridging the Financing Gap for Pro-Poor Innovation: Towards a Framework

Lina Sonne

2010-048: The R&D activity of multinational enterprises in peripheral economies: evidence from the EU new member states

Rajneesh Narula and Jose Guimon

2010-047: Localisation strategies of firms in wind energy technology development

Radhika Perrot and Sergey Filippov

2010-046: The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer

Bronwyn Hall and Christian Helmers

2010-045: The global institutional frameworks and the diffusion of renewable energy technologies in the BRICS countries

Isabel Maria Bodas-Freitas, Eva Dantas and Michiko Iizuka

2010-044: Research Into Use: Investigating the Relationship between Agricultural Research and Innovation

Andrew Hall, Jeroen Dijkman and Rasheed Sulaiman

2010-043: Assessing Innovations in International Research and Development Practice

Laxmi P. Pant

2010-042: Bottom-up, Bottom-line: Development-Relevant Enterprises in East Africa and their Significance for Agricultural Innovation

Andrew Hall, Norman Clark and Andy Frost

2010-041: Analysing multidimensional poverty in Guinea: A fuzzy set approach

Fatoumata Lamarana Diallo

2010-040: How effective are level-based R&D tax credits? Evidence from the Netherlands

Boris Lokshin and Pierre Mohnen

2010-039: India’s Rural Financial System: Does it Support Pro-Poor Innovation?

Lina Sonne

2010-038: Financing pro-poor entrepreneur-based innovation: A review of existing literature

Lina Sonne

2010-037: Pro-Poor, Entrepreneur-Based Innovation and it’s Role in Rural Development

Lina Sonne

2010-036: Entrepreneurship Development and the Role of Economic Transition in Entrepreneurial Activities in China

Ying Zhang and Geert Duysters

2010-035: Product, process and organizational innovation: drivers, complementarity and productivity effects

Michael Polder, George Leeuwen, Pierre Mohnen and Wladimir Raymond

2010-034: Impact of government support on R&D and innovation

Abraham Garcia and Pierre Mohnen

2010-033: Economic restructuring and total factor productivity growth: Tunisia over the period 1983-2001

Sofiane Ghali and Pierre Mohnen

2010-032: Brazilian aerospace manufacturing in comparative perspective: A Brazil/USA comparison of output and productivity

Daniel Vertesy and Adam Szirmai

2010-031: Keeping the Eclectic Paradigm Simple: A Brief Commentary and Implications for Ownership Advantages

Rajneesh Narula

2010-030: Entrepreneurship and the National System of Innovation - What is Missing in Turkey?

Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau

2010-029: Convergence of European Regions: A Reappraisal

Theophile T. Azomahou, Jalal El Ouardighi, Phu Nguyen-Van and Thi Kim Cuong Pham

2010-028: Sure bet or scientometric mirage? An assessment of Chinese progress in nanotechnology

Can Huang and Yilin Wu

2010-027: How Firms Innovate: R&D, Non-R&D, and Technology Adoption

Can Huang, Anthony Arundel and Hugo Hollanders

2010-026: CSR and market changing product innovations: Indian case studies

Shyama Ramani and Vivekananda Mukherjee

2010-025: Discovery of the flower industry in Ethiopia: experimentation and coordination

Mulu Gebreeyesus and Michiko Iizuka

2010-024: Towards a new measurement of energy poverty: A cross-community analysis of rural Pakistan

Bilal Mirza and Adam Szirmai

2010-023: Using Innovation Surveys for Econometric Analysis

Pierre Mohnen and Jacques Mairesse

2010-022: From Trends in Commodities and Manufactures to Country Terms of Trade

Thomas Ziesemer

2010-021: Much ado about nothing, or sirens of a brave new world?: MNE activity from developing countries and its significance for development

Rajneesh Narula

2010-020: Below the Radar: What does Innovation in Emerging Economies have to offer other Low Income Economies?

Raphael Kaplinsky, Joanna Chataway, Norman Clark, Rebecca Hanlin, Dinar Kale, Lois Muraguri, Theo Papaioannou, Peter Robbins and Watu Wamae

2010-019: Catching up in pharmaceuticals: a comparative study of India and Brazil

Samira Guennif and Shyama Ramani

2010-018: On the Delivery of Pro-Poor Innovations: Managerial Lessons from Sanitation Activists in India

Shyama Ramani, Shuan SadreGhazi and Geert Duysters

2010-017: Drivers of Brazilian foreign investments – technology seeking and technology exploiting as determinants of emerging FDI

Flavia Carvalho, Geert Duysters and Ionara Costa

2010-016: Global Players from Brazil: drivers and challenges in the internationalization process of Brazilian firms

Flavia Carvalho, Ionara Costa and Geert Duysters

2010-015: How novel is social capital: Three cases from the British history that reflect social capital

Semih Akçomak and Paul Stoneman

2010-014: Choosing a career in Science and Technology

Ezequiel Tacsir

2010-013: Occupation Choice: Family, Social and Market Influences

Ezequiel Tacsir

2010-012: The Financing of R&D and Innovation

Bronwyn Hall and Josh Lerner

2010-011: Financial Patenting in Europe

Bronwyn Hall, Grid Thoma and Salvatore Torrisi

2010-010: Business and financial method patents, innovation, and policy

Bronwyn Hall

2010-009: Net-immigration of developing countries: The role of economic determinants, disasters, conflicts, and political instability

Thomas Ziesemer

2010-008: Economic Adversity and Entrepreneurship-led Growth - Lessons from the Indian Software Sector

Suma Athreye

2010-007: Importance of Technological Innovation for SME Growth - Evidence from India

M. H. Bala Subrahmanya, M. Mathirajan and K. N. Krishnaswamy

2010-006: Measuring the Returns to R&D

Bronwyn Hall, Jacques Mairesse and Pierre Mohnen

2010-005: Is there complementarity or substitutability between internal and external R&D strategies?

John Hagedoorn and Ning Wang

2010-004: The Impact of the Credit Crisis on Poor Developing Countries and the Role of China in Pulling and Crowding Us Out

Thomas Ziesemer

2010-003: Understanding multilevel interactions in economic development

Micheline Goedhuys and Martin Srholec

2010-002: Human resource management and learning for innovation: pharmaceuticals in Mexico

Fernando Santiago