The objective of this paper is to capture the extent of sectoral heterogeneity across Professional Service sectors. It is argued that ongoing scholarly disputes on their boundaries within the geography of industry have lost sight of the intrinsic diversity that characterizes these activities. The present study connects this cue to research on sectoral patterns and elaborates an empirical analys...

background: this article sets up the initial discussion of the evolution of biopharmaceutical innovation in china through the perspective of sectoral innovation system (sis).methods: two data sources including archival documentary data and field interviews were used in this study. archival documentary data was collected from china food and drug administration (cfda) and chinese national knowled...

Abstract By reviewing economic performance, two main phenomena could be identified: The first phenomenon is prior to the third wave of the Industrial Revolution in which limited resources are the predominant input; in other words, physical and natural resources are much more credited than human resources. The second phenomenon resonates with the third wave of industrial revolution to the presen...

Sectoral crediting mechanisms such as sectoral no-lose targets have been proposed as a way to provide incentives for emission reductions in developing countries as part of an international climate agreement, and scale up carbon trading from the project-level Clean Development Mechanism to the sectoral level. Countries would generate tradable emission credits (offsets) for reducing emissions in ...