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Interactive Learning Spaces and Development Policies in Latin America

Arocena, Rodrigo; Sutz, Judith - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

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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Lead Users as Facilitators of Knowledge Sharing in Community Setting

Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Laursen, Keld - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

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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Too Much of a Good Thing: The Role of Alliance Portfolio Diversity for Innovation Output in the Biotechnology Industry

Zidorn, Wilfried; Wagner, Marcus - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2012

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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Motivating Organizational Search

Baumann, Oliver; Stieglitz, Nils - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

This paper investigates the value of high-powered incentives for motivating search for novelty in business organizations. While organizational search critically depends on the individual efforts of employees, motivating search effort is challenged by problems of unobservable behavior and the...

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How Journal Rankings can suppress Interdisciplinary Research – A Comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management

Rafols, Ismael; Leydesdorff, Loet; O'Hare, Alice; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

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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Product, Process and Organizational Innovation: Drivers, Complementarity and Productivity Effects

Polder, Michael; Leeuwen, George van; Mohnen, Pierre; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2010

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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Enterprise Systems Adoption and Firm Performance in Europe: The Role of Innovation

Zand, Fardad; Beers, Cees van - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2010

innovation in the process of value creation from ES investments. Empirical data on the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning … Document Management System (DMS) is used to investigate the effects on product and process innovation, revenue, productivity … show that all ES categories significantly increase the likelihood of product and process innovation. Most of ES categories …

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Outsourcing, Delocalization and Firm Organization: Transaction Costs vs. Industrial Relations in a Local Production System of Emilia-Romagna

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro; Pini, Paolo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing decisions in firms characterized by “thick’ industrial relations, that is where unions and employees are involved in, and are sometimes able to affect, the relative managerial...

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Beyond Technological Diversification: The Impact of Employee Diversity on Innovation

Østergaard, Christian R.; Timmermans, Bram; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2009

’s likelihood of introducing an innovation. The analysis draws on data from a recent innovation survey. This data is merged with a … non-significant effects of the different employee characteristics on the likelihood of introducing an innovation. …

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Learning and Skills in the Knowledge Economy

Ducatel, Ken - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

knowledge (know-how and know-who). This paper extends this approach by arguing that the key vectors of innovation and growth lie …

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