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not just innovation, accumulation or distribution, but their structural compatibility over time. Many different growth …
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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...
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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...
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Evolutionary theories of technological change and industrial dynamics give primary importance to interaction between heterogeneous agents, endowed with complementary assets and competencies. Accordingly, support to co-operative R&D is central to technology policy, as a mean for increasing system...
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organisation and innovation affect Japanese and US MNEs' global R&D networks and transnational learning, based on case studies of … innovation networks because the liberal institutional environment within which US MNEs have developed enables them to extend …
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Innovation may be seen as a process of knowledge creation and the speed and direction of knowledge creation reflects … exposed to the need to engage in incremental product and service innovation the economic potential of diffusing good practices … aiming at promoting innovation and knowledge creation. …
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This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing … the link between innovation and profits separately for innovators and non-innovators, and for indigenous innovators and … non-innovators and externally-owned plants. We also consider the determinants of innovation over the distribution of plant …
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Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the … complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … manufacturing plants. Using optimal combinations of cross-functional teams in the innovation process increases innovation success in …
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performance of innovation studies units with business and management schools in the UK. Using various mappings and metrics, this … study shows that: (i) innovation studies units are consistently more interdisciplinary than business and management schools …
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We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …
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