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Introduction
Nejla Yacoub has got a Ph.D in Economics of Innovation from both the University of Tunis El Manar (Tunisia) and the University of Littoral Côte d'Opale (Lille Nord de France). She is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management of Mahdia, University of Monastir (Tunisia) since 2012. She is an alumna of the Globelics Academy PhD School and a member of the Globelics Network. She is also an associate editor at AJSTID. She speaks Arabic, French, English and German.
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September 2012 - present
Faculty of Economics and Management of Mahdia, University of Monastir, Tunisia
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- Professor (Assistant)
Education
January 2008 - January 2012
January 2008 - January 2012
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The economic literature reveals that the relationship between patents and Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) depends on industries and countries’ features. Our research considers the pharmaceutical industry in China. This choice stems from a contradictory observation: China is known for its important imitation capacities, but at the same time, it is...
This chapter entitle, “Case studies from Africa”, Bamidele Wale-Oshinowo, Sorbarikor Lebura, Nejla Yacoub and Laurice Alexandre-Leclair present case studies from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Tunisia where, in recent years, women entrepreneurs have been consolidating a strong position in the sustainable fashion industry.
Empirical methodologies to assess innovation are generally econometric models using ‘quantifiable’ variables. However, the innovation system approach shows that innovation is a social process. Its analysis needs to consider the influence of humans on the innovation system actors’ behaviours and decisions. This challenge is even more crucial when st...
The objective of this research was to assess pharmaceutical innovation in Tunisia. First, we examined the national sectoral innovation system (NSIS), focusing on the objectives and instruments of the industrial and innovation policy. Second, we adopted an empirical approach based on a qualitative survey of all of the 32 pharmaceutical firms in Tuni...
Anti-counterfeiting strategies of luxury cosmetic enterprises: Accumulation versus valorisation of the knowledge-capital
In the branch of luxury cosmetics, counterfeiting is harmful to firms, in terms of image and profitability. Fighting it is hence an important economic stake. In this paper, we study the efficiency of technological innovation as a...
Strategies of big pharma face to generics
What are the strategies adopted by Big Pharmaceutical Firms (Big Pharma) face to the globalized generics competition? In this paper our interest is targeted on the arbitration of these firms between knowledge-capital accumulation and knowledgecapital valorisation strategies. The knowledge-capital is defined...
Bien qu’elle ne soit devenue très en vogue que depuis le milieu des années 1990, la propriété intellectuelle est une notion bien ancrée dans le temps. Après un long processus d’évolution, elle est, de nos jours, dans un stade dynamique de transformation. Avec l’accélération du progrès technique et du mouvement de libéralisation économique, la prote...
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models have gained continuously in popularity as an empirical tool for assessing the impact of trade liberalization on agricultural growth, poverty and income distribution. Conventional models ignore however the channels linking technical change in agriculture, trade openness and poverty. This study seeks to inc...
Libéralisation des échanges, multiplication des canaux de distribution, développement des capacités de production dans les pays en développement (PED), lacunes au niveau de l‟application des droits de la propriété intellectuelle (DPI), etc. autant de facteurs qui contribuent à l‟amplification de la contrefaçon. Dans la branche des cosmétiques de lu...
