Showing 1 - 10 of 175
This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771954
This paper analyses the interaction of two topics: Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Internet. Merging these two fields is a key area of concern for contemporary managers and researchers. They have realized that Internet can enhance SCM by making real time information available and enabling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572655
This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which rate incoming spillovers more importantly and who can limit outgoing spillovers by a more effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772409
Economic theory tells us that abnormal industry and firm profits will not persist for any length of time. Any industry or firm making profits in excess of the normal rate of return will attract entrants and this competitive process will erode profits. A substantial amount of research however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644916
This paper analyzes the formation of Research Corporations as an alternative governance structure for performing R&D compared to pursuing in-house R&D projects. Research Corporations are private for-profit research centers that bring together several firms with similar research goals. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005707949
also find that higher innovation levels and experience from the parent university are associated with higher efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849637
Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630739
, improvements in existing goods, while the low firing cost country will more specialize in 'primary innovation', that is, invention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704983
The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419317
with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to … understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge … as a key resource for innovation shifts the focus from the innovation itself to the process of knowledge generation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741445