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Control of the costs of quality management: A review or current practice in Spain
Amat, Oriol; Blake, John - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248454
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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 effect of university culture and stakeholders' perceptions on university-business linking activities
Gassol, Jeannine Horowitz - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
The present work discusses the effects of university culture and structure on university-business relations, focusing on knowledge transfer activities. It puts forward the thesis that when links between university and business are introduced into the university system as a turn-key proposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704908
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704868
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772070
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772335
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Diffusion with delayed informational spillovers
Duque, Gabriel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
I study the relation between the delay in the transmission of spillovers of information and diffusion. When a firm enters or innovates it benefits from the information it gets by observing past entry. Delays in the process of receiving the information reduce the benefits of the spillover and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772369
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704976