National Innovation Efficiency During the Global Crisis A Cross-Country Analysis /

What effect did the Great Recession have on national innovation? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book presents the most comprehensive data set in current e...

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Main Authors: Gunay, Emine Nur (Author), Kazazoglu, Gozde Nur (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Summary:What effect did the Great Recession have on national innovation? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book presents the most comprehensive data set in current economic literature to measure and compare the effect of GDP and GDP per capita on the efficiency of 58 countries' national innovation systems during the Great Recession. A total of 18 different models are applied to different groupings of the data, including data envelopment analyses and time lag effects. The result is a rich comparative resource for policy makers and economists alike.
Physical Description:XVII, 184 p. 8 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9781137582553