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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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External technology sources: Embodied or disembodied technology acquisition

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the … technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of the firm's innovation strategy. We take …

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Horizontal innovation in the theory of growth and development

Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005

development and fluctuations. In many such applications, a key role is played by complementarities in the process of innovation. …

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Entrepreneurial risk, investment and innovation

Caggese, Andrea - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

innovation is stronger for the less diversified entrepreneurial firms, and is stronger in the absence of financing frictions in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772208

R&D in the pharmaceutical industry: A world of small innovations

Domínguez, Beatriz; Ganuza, Juan José; Llobet, Gerard - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005

It is commonly argued that in recent years pharmaceutical companies have directed their R&D towards small improvements of existing compounds instead of more risky drastic innovations. In this paper we show that the proliferation of these small innovations is likely to be linked to the lack of...

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Competition, innovation and growth with limited commitment

Marimon, Ramon; Quadrini, Vincenzo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005

We study how barriers to business start-up affect the investment in knowledge capital when contracts are not enforceable. Barriers to business start-up lower the competition for knowledge capital and, in absence of commitment, reduce the incentive to accumulate knowledge. As a result, countries...

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