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Complementarity between technology make and buy in innovation strategies: Evidence from Belgiam manufacturing firms
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771954
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E-supply chain management: Review, implications and directions for future research
Giménez, Cristina; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004
This paper analyses the interaction of two topics: Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Internet. Merging these two fields is a key area of concern for contemporary managers and researchers. They have realized that Internet can enhance SCM by making real time information available and enabling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572655
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R&D cooperation and spillovers: Some empirical evidence
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which rate incoming spillovers more importantly and who can limit outgoing spillovers by a more effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772409
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The organization of research corporations and researcher ability
Cassiman, Bruno - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This paper analyzes the formation of Research Corporations as an alternative governance structure for performing R&D compared to pursuing in-house R&D projects. Research Corporations are private for-profit research centers that bring together several firms with similar research goals. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005707949
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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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Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units
Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
also find that higher innovation levels and experience from the parent university are associated with higher efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849637
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Clusters of entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009
Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630739
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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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Employment protection, international specialization and innovation
Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996
, improvements in existing goods, while the low firing cost country will more specialize in 'primary innovation', that is, invention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704983