technological innovation, because of its curtail role in socio-economic development is one of the important aspects of governmental policies. in this article technological innovation is studied by an institutional approach. public policy by applying this approach could use norms, regulations and other institutional measures to improve innovations and technological policy. more specifically in t...

Previous research shows that technical progress at the industry level, measured by sectoral TFP growth, is more localized in continental European countries than in Anglo-Saxon countries. We use EU KLEMS data sets to decompose sectoral TFP for nine European countries by means of a Malmquist approach, in order to separate technical change. Applying Harberger diagrams, we describe the sectoral pat...

Abstract The leather value chain starts with livestock, the key source of hides and skins, main raw materials for industry. Despite having second-largest livestock population in Africa, Tanzania is only 11th largest exporter on continent, underlining disproportionate contribution sector to economy. This study presents results a recent assessment aimed at identifying performance bottlenecks Tanz...