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2009-023: Multinational enterprises, development and globalisation: some clarifications and a research agenda

Rajneesh Narula and Dunning J.H.

2009-022: Network-independent partner selection and the evolution of innovation networks

Joel Baum, Robin Cowan and Nicolas Jonard

2009-021: Foreign Direct Investment in Times of Global Economic Crisis: Spotlight on New Europe

Sergey Filippov and Kalman Kalotay

2009-020: Collinearity in growth regressions: The example of worker remittances

Thomas Ziesemer

2009-019: Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?

Laurens Klerkx, Andrew Hall and Cees Leeuwis

2009-018: Learning How to Consume and Returns to Product Promotion

Zakaria Babutsidze

2009-017: Measuring Eco-Innovation

Anthony Arundel and Rene Kemp

2009-016: Stochastic environmental effects, demographic variation, and economic growth

Theophile Azomahou and Tapas Mishra

2009-015: Knowledge Base Determinants of Technology Sourcing in the Clean Development Mechanism Projects

Asel Doranova, Ionara Costa and Geert Duysters

2009-014: What does it take for an R&D tax incentive policy to be effective?

Pierre Mohnen and Boris Lokshin

2009-013: The Diffusion of Informal Knowledge and Innovation Performance: A sectoral approach

Abraham Garcia-Torres and Hugo Hollanders

2009-012: Habit Formation, Demand and Growth through Product Innovation

Abraham Garcia-Torres

2009-011: The motivations, organisation and outcomes of university-industry interaction in the Netherlands

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas and Bart Verspagen

2009-010: Industrialisation as an engine of growth in developing countries

Adam Szirmai

2009-009: Are International Market Demands Compatible with Serving Domestic Social Needs? Challenges in Strengthening Innovation Capacity in Kenya's Horticulture Industry

Mirjam Steglich, Ekin Keskin, Andrew Hall and Jeroen Dijkman

2009-008: Thinking locally: Exploring the importance of a subsidiary-centered model of FDI-related spillovers in Brazil

Anabel Marin and Ionara Costa

2009-007: Remittances, lagged dependent variables and migration stocks as determinants of migration from developing countries

Thomas Ziesemer

2009-006: The role of consumption and the financing of health investment under epidemic shocks

Theophile Azomahou, Bity Diene and Luc Soete

2009-005: Consumer behaviour: evolution of preferences and the search for novelty

Abraham Garcia-Torres

2009-004: Standards as a platform for innovation and learning in the global economy: a case study of Chilean salmon farming industry

Michiko Iizuka

2009-003: The Role of Firms in Energy Transformation

Rhadika Perrot

2009-002: Bridges in social capital: A review of the definitions and the social capital of social capital researchers

Semih Akçomak

2009-001: Effectiveness of R&D Tax Incentives in Small and Large Enterprises in Quebec

Rufin Baghana and Pierre Mohnen

2008-077: Drivers and Barriers of Innovation Dynamics in Healthcare - Towards a framework for analyzing innovation in Tuberculosis control in India

Nora Engel

2008-076: Flexibility and innovation in response to emerging infectious diseases: Reactions to multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis in India

Nora Engel

2008-075: Developing internationally comparable indicators for the commercialization of publicly-funded research

Anthony Arundel and Catalina Bordoy

2008-074: Normative Power is in the Eye of the Beholder: An Empirical Assessment of Perceptions of EU Identity at the WTO

Elisabeth De Zutter and Francisco Toro

2008-073: A percolation model of the product lifecycle

Koen Frenken, Gerald Silverberg and Marco Valente

2008-072: Export Demand Elasticities as Determinants of Growth: Estimates for Mauritius

Alexis Habiyaremye and Thomas Ziesemer

2008-071: Public Capital and Income Distribution: a Marriage of Hicks & Newman-Read

Yoseph Getachew

2008-070: Global Migration of the Highly Skilled: A Tentative and Quantitative Approach

Theo Dunnewijk

2008-069: Learning Networks Matter: Challenges to Developing Learning-Based Competence in Mango Production and Post-Harvest in Andhra Pradesh, India

Laxmi Prasad Pant, Helen Hambly Odame, Andrew Hall and Rasheed Sulaiman

2008-068: Private Capacity and Public Failure: Contours of Livestock Innovation Response Capacity in Kenya

Ekin Keskin, Mirjam Steglich, Jeroen Dijkman and Andrew Hall

2008-067: EU enlargement and consequences for FDI assisted industrial development

Rajneesh Narula and Christian Bellak

2008-066: The Heterogeneity of MNC' Subsidiaries and Technology Spillovers: Explaining positive and negative effects in emerging economies

Anabel Marin and Subash Sasidharan

2008-065: Formal and informal external linkages and firms' innovative strategies. A cross-country comparison

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas, Tommy Clausen, Roberto Fontana and Bart Verspagen

2008-064: The Innovative Performance of Alliance Block Members: Evidence from the Microelectronics Industry

Geert Duysters, Charmianne Lemmens, Wilko Letterie and Wim Vanhaverbeke

2008-063: Worker remittances, migration, accumulation and growth in poor developing countries

Thomas Ziesemer

2008-062: Russia's emerging multinationals: trends and issues

Sergey Filippov

2008-061: FDI and Innovation as Drivers of Export Behaviour: Firm-level Evidence from East Asia

Ganeshan Wignaraja

2008-060: Alliance block composition patterns in the microelectronics industry

Geert Duysters and Charmianne Lemmens

2008-059: When a good science base is not enough to create competitive industries: Lock-in and inertia in Russian systems of innovation

Rajneesh Narula and Irina Jormanainen

2008-058: Nanotechnology Publications and Patents: A Review of Social Science Studies and Search Strategies

Can Huang, Ad Notten and Nico Rasters

2008-057: Growth with Endogenous Migration Hump and the Multiple, Dynamically Interacting Effects of Aid in Poor Developing Countries

Thomas Ziesemer

2008-056: Public Capital, Income Distribution and Growth

Yoseph Getachew

2008-055: Europeanisation Strategy of Chinese Companies: Its Perils and Promises

Sergey Filippov and Tina Saebi

2008-054: Internationalization trajectories - a crosscountry comparison: Are large Chinese and Indian companies different?

Fabienne Fortanier and Rob van Tulder

2008-053: India's Outward Foreign Direct Investments in Steel Industry in a Chinese Comparative Perspective

Nagesh Kumar and Alka Chadha

2008-052: Internationalization and Technological Catching Up of Emerging Multinationals: A Case Study of China's Haier Group

Geert Duysters, Jojo Jacob, Charmianne Lemmens and Jintian Hu

2008-051: Internationalising to create Firm Specific Advantages: Leapfrogging strategies of U.S. Pharmaceutical firms in the 1930s and 1940s & Indian Pharmaceutical firms in the 1990s and 2000s

Suma Athreye and Andrew Godley