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High Performance in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands
Kourtit, Karima; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255701
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The Firms behind the Regions: Analysis of Regional Innovation Performance in Portugal by External Logistic Biplots
Noronha, Teresa de; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
The strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy in Portugal have, over the last two decades, produced various … firms located throughout the country, and to explore those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation …. In our paper, innovation is used as a major contributor to the policy evaluation process referred to above. To provide a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255850
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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256552
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A Technology-gap Approach to Cumulative Growth -Toward an Integrated Model Empirical Evidence for Spain, 1960-1997
Castellacci, Fulvio - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001
not just innovation, accumulation or distribution, but their structural compatibility over time. Many different growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260603
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Evaluating the Capacity of Standard Investment Appraisal Methods
Akalu, Mehari Mekonnen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
The survey findings indicate the existence of gap between theory and practice of capital budgeting. Standard appraisal methods have shown a wider project value discrepancy, which is beyond and above the contingency limit. In addition, the research has found the growing trend in the use of value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256495
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A Monte Carlo Comparison between the Free Cash Flow and Discounted Cash Flow Approaches
Akalu, Mehari Mekonnen; Turner, Rodney - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
One of the debates in the capital budgeting model selection is between the free cash flow and DCF methods. In this paper an attempt is made to compare SVA against NPV model based on Monte Carlo simulations. Accordingly, NPV is found less sensitive to value driver variations and has got higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257488
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The Dismantling of the Japanese Model in Consumer Electronics The Case of the Digital Amplifier
Christensen, Jens Frøslev; Olesen, Michael Holm; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004
-based innovation, the current transformation of sound amplification from conventional to digital amplifiers. We study the early … formation of this new technology as especially reflected in the particularly dynamic cluster of innovation in Denmark and extend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273113
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Nascent Entrepreneurs, Innovation and Financing Constraints
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007
Innovative nascent entrepreneurs face the problem of obtaining finance, mainly due to information problems. We use new data on capital seeking start-ups allowing distinction between planning stage and early stage. Being innovative does not affect the probability of having external finance in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839210
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Making Consumer Knowledge Available and Useful the case of the Computer Games Industry
Jeppesen, Lars Bo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001
It has been demonstrated that users occasionally innovate. However, it can now be observed that even end-consumers act as a source novel product designs. A case study of a firm, and “its” consumers - from the computer games industry - illustrates how sourcing of consumer knowledge has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839234
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Diversity of Innovative Strategy as a Source of Technological Performance
Llerena, Patrick; Oltra, Vanessa - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000
This paper explores the impact of diversity of innovative strategies of firms upon the industrial dynamics through a micro-simulation model. We consider two types of firms each one being characterised by a specific innovative strategy. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839256