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Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.
Lokshin, Boris; Gils, Anita van; Bauer, Eva - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150811
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The impact of innovation activities on productivity and firm growth: evidence from Brazil
Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209851
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Science, Technology and Development: Emerging concepts and visions
Soete, Luc - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150780
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Financial Constraint and R&D Investment: Evidence from CIS
Mohnen, Pierre; Tiwari, Amaresh; Palm, Franz; Schim van … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
Using direct information on financial constraints from questionnaires, rather than the commonly used balance sheet information, this paper presents evidence that, controlling for traditional factors as size, market share, cooperative arrangement, and expected profitability, financial constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795832
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R&D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry
Huang, Can; Qu, Zhe; Zhang, Mingqian; Zhao, Yanyun - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
This paper studies the impact of the R&D offshoring of multinational enterprises on the firms in host emerging economies. We develop a two-stage non-cooperative game to analyze the strategic interaction between multinational and host country enterprises engaged in R&D investment. An empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451571
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Buying and Selling Research and Development Services, 1997 to 2002
Mohnen, Pierre; Rose, Antoine; Rosa, Julio - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
Research and development is a crucial activity in the innovation process. Not every firm is in a position to overcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150864