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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...
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This paper analyses the association between inter-firm collaborative agreements and the technological capabilities of the largest European electronics firms between 1984 and 1997. To this purpose we collected information about 2,240 R&D agreements sponsored by the EU and 1,970 non sponsored...
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The paper deals with the policies for an idealized transition of a National System of Innovation (NSI) from a system …
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This study makes use of the results of a postal questionnaire sent to a sample of large private sector companies in Britain and France to address two key issues in the new institutional analysis of the firm. The first is the way the institutional environment supports and constrains the design of...
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knowledge institutes in Finland and the Netherlands. Three questions – relevant for innovation policies - constitute the central … Innovation Surveys we find that foreign firms in the Netherlands are less likely to co-operate with domestic public knowledge … partners. This raises the issue whether Finnish innovation policies with a strong focus on R&D co-operation provide incentives …
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link between the universities and industrial innovation, and the role of different search strategies in influencing the …
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in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation … low-cost countries: the insourcer/vendor may not only offer cost advantages, but also quality improvement and innovation …
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The emergent “learning economy” is truly global in the sense that it deeply affects the whole world. The emergence of “learning societies”, though, is a process that takes place only in some regions, the patterns followed by this highly complex social process being far from converging....
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This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among companies we extend this to the community level. We then...
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on innovation output. Previous literature has stressed that investments into the heterogeneity of partners in an alliance … influence on a firms innovation output. Furthermore, maintaining diverse alliance portfolios has an inverted U-shaped influence … on a firm’s innovation output, as managerial costs and complexity levels become too high. …
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