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Animal Spirits Meets Creative Destruction

Francois, P.; Lloyd-Ellis, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

We show how a Schumpeterian process of creative destruction can induce coordination in the timing of entrepreneurial activities across diverse sectors of the economy.Consequently, a multi-sector economy, in which sector-specific, productivity improvements are made by independent, profit-seeking...

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Anti-takeover Provisions as a Source of Innovation and Value Creation

Humphery-Jenner, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

-creating takeovers and increase innovation and do not induce agency con icts of managerial entrenchment. This implies that for innovative …

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Optimal Cognitive Distance and Absorptive Capacity

Duysters, Geert; Nooteboom, B.; Vanhaverbeke, W.P.M.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology …-based alliances.The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped effect of cognitive distance on innovation performance …

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Cognitive Distance in and Between COP’s and Firms : Where do Exploitation and Exploration take Place, and How are they Connected?

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper contributes to the analysis of where and how both exploitation and exploration may take place inside and between communities and organizations. It connects with the discussion of differences between communities of practice and epistemic communities. The analysis allows for differences...

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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …

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Learning and Innovation in Inter-Organizational Relationships and Networks

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper gives a survey of insights into inter-firm alliances and networks for innovation, from a constructivist … myopia that, for the sake of innovation, needs to be complemented by means of outside relations with other firms, at larger … cognitive distance. Hence the importance of networks for innovation.On the governance side, the paper gives a review of …

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Trust, Social Capital and Economic Development

Francois, P.; Zabojnik, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

Many argue that elements of a society s norms, culture or social capital are central to understanding its development.However, these notions have been difficult to capture in economic models.Here we argue that trustworthiness is the economically relevant component of a society s culture and...

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Culture and Development : An Analytical Framework

Francois, P.; Zabojnik, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

This paper develops a framework which analyzes how a population's culture affects the decisions of rational profit maximizing firms, while simultaneously exploring how the actions of these firms in turn affect the population's culture.By endogenizing culture as well as the more usual economic...

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Inverse Probability Weighted Generalised Empirical Likelihood Estimators : Firm Size and R&D Revisited

Inkmann, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

The inverse probability weighted Generalised Empirical Likelihood (IPW-GEL) estimator is proposed for the estimation of the parameters of a vector of possibly non-linear unconditional moment functions in the presence of conditionally independent sample selection or attrition.The estimator is...

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North-South knowledge spillovers and competition : Convergence versus divergence

van de Klundert, Theo; Smulders, Sjak - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

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