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Pavitt, Keith - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003

The paper argues that innovation processes can be cognitive, organisational and/or economic. They happen in conditions of uncertainty and (in the capitalist system) of competition. Three broad, overlapping sub-processes of innovation are identified: the production of knowledge; the transformation...

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The Determinants of Regional Specialisation in Business Services: Agglomeration Economies, Vertical Linkages and Innovation

Meliciani, Valentina; Savona, Maria - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2011

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The governance of University knowledge transfer

Geuna, Aldo; Muscio, Alessandro - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2008

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Trade Reforms and Technological Accumulation: the Case of the Industrial Sector in Argentina during the 1990s

Arza, Valeria - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003

a contrast between visible changes in performance and decision-making processes that stem from a behavioural dimension … openness on technological performance is dependent on its incidence on the elements that guide firms' technological decisions … survival attitude unrelated to productive activities, and this often hampered technological performance. Thus two distinct …

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University Patenting and its Effects on Academic Research

Geuna, Aldo; Nesta, Lionel - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003

The paper explores the possible consequences for academic research of increased patenting in European universities. It underlines that most of the policy literature refers to the advantages of university patenting without balancing them against the costs or the risks involved in the activities....

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The Impact of an Associative Strategy (the PROFO Program) on Small and Medium Enterprises in Chile

Benavente, Jose Miguel; Crespi, Gustavo - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003

the enhancement of productive performance of Chilean SMEs firms. In order to do that, the estimate of the impact is …

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The Value and Costs of Modularity: A Cognitive Perspective

Brusoni, Stefano; Marengo, Luigi; Prencipe, Andrea; … - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2004

This paper discusses the issue of modularity from a problem-solving perspective. Modularity is in fact a decomposition heuristic, through which a complex problem is decomposed into independent or quasi-independent sub-problems. By means of a model of problem decomposition, this paper studies the...

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Remixing Cinema: The case of the Brighton Swarm of Angels

Cassarino, Irene; Geuna, Aldo - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2007

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Transforming the energy system - the evolution of the German technological system for solar cells

Jacobsson, Staffan; Andersson, Björn A.; Bångens, Lennart - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002

To improve our understanding of processes involved in the formation and growth of new technological systems in the energy sector and to identify the associated key challenges for policy makers managing the transformation process, we examine the development of the German technological system for...

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To Know is to Be: Three Perspectives on the Codification of Knowledge

Bartholomaei, Mike - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2005

This paper presents three perspectives on the codification of knowledge. These perspectives are formed by recent contributions in the fields of economics, business and management studies and of a group of writers who have a ‘relational’ perspective from the field of organisational behaviour....

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