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2008-045: Intra-firm Technology Transfer and R&D in Foreign Affiliates: Substitutes or Complements? Evidence from Japanese Multinational Firms

Rene Belderbos, Banri Ito and Ryuhei Wakasugi

2008-044: The challenge of measuring innovation in emerging economies' firms: A proposal of a new set of indicators on innovation

Luciana Marins

2008-043: Portrait of an Odd-Eyed Cat: Cultural Crossing as a Trademark for a Dutch-Thai Strategic Alliance

Nantawan Noi Kwanjai and J. Friso den Hertog

2008-042: The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands

Semih Akçomak and Bas ter Weel

2008-041: Experimentation with Strategy and the Evolution of Dynamic Capability in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector

Suma Athreye, Dinar Kale and Shyama Ramani

2008-040: A multilevel analysis of innovation in developing countries

Martin Srholec

2008-039: Further results on bias in dynamic unbalanced panel data models with an application to firm R&D investment

Boris Lokshin

2008-038: The Economic Impact of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Theophile Azomahou

2008-037: Localized Innovation, Localized Diffusion and the Environment: An Analysis of CO2 Emission Reductions by Passenger Cars, 2000-2007

Bart Los and Bart Verspagen

2008-036: Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions

Wilfred Schoenmakers, Geert Duysters and Wim Vanhaverbeke

2008-035: Cross-border Investment and Economic Integration: The Case of Guangdong Province and Hong Kong SAR

Naubahar Sharif and Can Huang

2008-034: Wage effects of R&D tax incentives:Evidence from the Netherlands

Boris Lokshin and Pierre Mohnen

2008-033: Local Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation and Economic Performance in Developing Countries: A discussion of alternative specifications

Effie Kesidou and Adam Szirmai

2008-032: Promoting clean technologies: The energy market structure crucially matters

Théophile Azomahou, Raouf Boucekkine and Phu Nguyen-Van

2008-031: Changing Configuration of Alternative Energy Systems

Radhika Bhuyan and Lynn Mytelka

2008-030: Strategic motivations for Sino-Western alliances: a comparativeanalysis of Chinese and Western alliance formation drivers

Tina Saebi and Qinqin Dong

2008-029: Worker remittances and government behaviour in the receiving countries

Thomas Ziesemer

2008-028: Regional Capital Inputs in Chinese Industry and Manufacturing, 1978-2003

Lili Wang and Adam Szirmai

2008-027: A Closer Look at the Relationship Between Life Expectancy and Economic Growth

Théophile Azomahou, Raouf Boucekkine and Bity Diene

2008-026: New Europe's Promise for Life Sciences

Sergey Filippov and Kalman Kalotay

2008-025: A percolation model of eco-innovation diffusion: the relationship between diffusion, learning economies and subsidies

Simona Cantono and Gerald Silverberg

2008-024: Serving low-income markets: Rethinking Multinational Corporations’ Strategies

Shuan SadreGhazi and Geert Duysters

2008-023: Facing the Trial of Internationalizing Clinical Trials to Developing Countries: Some Evidence from Mexico

Fernando Santiago

2008-022: If the Alliance Fits...: Innovation and Network Dynamics

Robin Cowan and Nicolas Jonard

2008-021: The making of national giants: technology and governments shaping the international expansion of oil companies from Brazil and China

Flavia Pereira de Carvalho and Andrea Goldstein

2008-020: Beyond the emission market: Kyoto and the international expansion of waste management firms

Ionara Costa, Asel Doranova and Geert-Jan Eenhoorn

2008-019: The Innovativeness of Foreign Firms in China

Branka Urem, Ludovico Alcorta and Tongliang An

2008-018: Multinationals are Multicultural Units: Some Indications from a Cross-Cultural Study

Nantawan Noi Kwanjai and J. Friso den Hertog

2008-017: Knowledge Transfers between Canadian Business Enterprises and Universities: Does Distance Matter?

Julio M. Rosa and Pierre Mohnen

2008-016: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategies in ICT SMEs in Enlarged Europe (EU25)

Kaushalesh Lal and Theo Dunnewijk

2008-015: Productivity effects of innovation, stress and social relations

Rifka Weehuizen, Bulat Sanditov and Robin Cowan

2008-014: Running The Marathon

William Cowan, Robin Cowan and Patrick Llerena

2008-013: Explaining Success and Failure in Development

Adam Szirmai

2008-012: Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor

Shyama Ramani

2008-011: Embedding Research in Society: Development Assistance Options for Supporting Agricultural Innovation in a Global Knowledge Economy

Andrew Hall

2008-010: The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

Lex Borghans, Angela Lee Duckworth, James Heckman and Bas ter Weel

2008-009: Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance

Boris Lokshin, Anita van Gils and Eva Bauer

2008-008: The Voyage of the Beagle in Innovation Systems Land.Explorations on Sectors, Innovation, Heterogeneity and Selection

Martin Srholec and Bart Verspagen

2008-007: Knowledge-based productivity in low-tech industries: evidence from firms in developing countries

Micheline Goedhuys, Norbert Janz and Pierre Mohnen

2008-006: Financial Constraints and Other Obstacles: Are they a Threat to Innovation Activity?

Pierre Mohnen, Franz Palm, Sybrand Schim van der Loeff and Amaresh Tiwari

2008-005: Is Inter-Firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel

Mika Maliranta, Pierre Mohnen and Petri Rouvinen

2008-004: Reframing technical change: Livestock Fodder Scarcity Revisited as Innovation Capacity Scarcity: Part 3. Tools for Diagnosis and Institutional Change in Innovation Systems

Andrew Hall, Rasheed Sulaiman and Peter Bezkorowajnyj

2008-003: Reframing technical change: Livestock Fodder Scarcity Revisited as Innovation Capacity Scarcity: Part 2. A Framework for Analysis

Andrew Hall, Rasheed Sulaiman and Peter Bezkorowajnyj

2008-002: Reframing technical change: Livestock Fodder Scarcity Revisited as Innovation Capacity Scarcity: Part 1. A Review of Historical and Recent Experiences

Andrew Hall, Rasheed Sulaiman, Mona Dhamankar, Peter Bezkorowajnyj and Leela Prasad

2008-001: Science, Technology and Development: Emerging concepts and visions

Luc Soete

2007-039: Transition of Governance in a Mature Open Software Source Community: Evidence from the Debian Case

Bert Sadowski, Gaby Sadowski-Rasters and Geert Duysters

2007-038: Challenges to Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Systems: Where Do We Go From Here?

Andrew Hall

2007-037: Short-term effects of new universities on regional innovation

Robin Cowan and Natalia Zinovyeva

2007-036: Foreign-owned firms and technological capabilities in the Argentinean manufacturing industry

Ionara Costa and Anabel Marin

2007-035: Approach for Analysing Capabilities in Latecomer Software Companies

Rossitza Rousseva