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Global Strategy and the Acquisition of Local Knowledge How MNCs Enter Regional Knowledge Clusters

Lorenzen, Mark; Mahnke, Volker - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002

The paper addresses two recent interrelated phenomena: High- tech regional knowledge clusters, and globalization of R&D activities by multinational corporations (MNCs). Combining MNC literature; regional development literature; and literature on social networks, the paper discusses determinants of...

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The Social Embeddedness of Knowledge Problems of Knowledge Sharing and Organisational Learning in International High-Technology Ventures

Lam, Alice - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

The growing importance of knowledge-based competition has prompted many firms to build international cooperative ventures for skills acquisition and knowledge building. Based on an empirical study of a close collaboration in the knowledge intensive area between a British and a Japanese...

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China's Innovation System and the Move Toward Harmonious Growth and Endogenous Innovation

Gu, Shulin; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

need for a shift in the growth trajectory with stronger emphasis on ‘endogenous innovation’ and ‘harmonious development …’. This paper attempts to capture the current characteristics of China’s production and innovation system; how they were … it is possible to link together the two key concepts ‘endogenous innovation’ and ‘harmonious development’ by focusing …

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Pitfalls and Opportunities in Knowledge Sharing - Experiences from a research capacity building project in Central America

Johnson, Björn; Müller, Jens; Orozco, Jeffrey - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

themes, i.e. the National Systems of Innovation and the Social Construction of Technology approaches. In this paper the CA … universities are viewed as important sub-systems of the respective national systems of innovation. Thus, the following is an … systems of innovation. To what extent did the knowledge transfer and exchange as well as the organizational capacity building …

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Polarization of the Swedish University Sector Structural Characteristics and Positioning

Ljungberg, Daniel; Johansson, Mattias; McKelvey, Maureen - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

Universities have increasingly been facing a focus on competition for research resources, not the least for external funding. This paper studies structural characteristics of the Swedish university sector and these characteristics relation to the propensity of universities to attract external...

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Research Strategies in Science-based Start-ups - Effects on performance in Danish and Swedish biotechnology

Valentin, Finn; Dahlgren, Henrich; Jensen, Rasmus Lund - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

Although biotech start-ups fail or succeed based on their research few attempts have been made to examine if and how they strategize in this core of their activity. Popular views on Dedicated Biotech Firms (DBFs) see the inherent uncertainty of research as defying notions of strategizing,...

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Modularization Assessment of Product Architecture

Mikkola, Juliana Hsuan - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

Modularization refers to the opportunity for mixing-and-matching of components in a modular product design in which the standard interfaces between components are specified to allow for a range of variation in components to be substituted in a product architecture. It is through...

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Defensive Publishing An Empirical Study

Henkel, Joachim; Pangerl, Stefanie - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

Defensive Publishing denotes publication of an invention with the purpose of creating prior art, and thus preventing patents being granted on this invention. Although widely employed, it has hardly been investigated empirically. Our study is based on 56 in-depth interviews, among others with...

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The Academic Robotics Community in the UK Web based data construction and analysis of a distributed community of practice

Tomlinson, Mark - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002

context of ‘communities of practice’ (Lave and Wenger 1991) and is related to the literature on innovation systems. The paper …

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Information Technology and Change in Danish Organizations

Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational change and information technology (IT) in Danish manufacturing and service companies. The data material is a survey covering 1900 Danish companies. In the paper it is shown that there in a three-year period are major...

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