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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success - an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 ("Mannheim Innovation Panel"), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...

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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry

Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing new. What is new is studying how this relationship fares in latecomer economic contexts such as Nigeria, and that is the focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation...

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Motivating innovation in a knowledge economy with tax incentives

d'Andria, Diego; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

In the past decades the role of profit sharing schemes (PSS) as a way to foster innovation in a principal-agent context, and more generally of innovation in economic growth, have been widely acknowledged and studied. However, surprisingly little has been done to analyze the interactions between...

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Works Councils, Training Activities and Innovation: A Study of German Firms

Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management and focuses on the role of works councils as a specific...

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Absorptive Capacity and Innovation: When Is It Better to Cooperate?

Egbetokun, Abiodun; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...

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Do Firms Benefit from Complementarity Effect in R&D and What Drives their R&D Strategy Choices?

Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...

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The Use of Knowledge Management by Innovators - Empirical Evidence for Germany

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

focus is on knowledge management practices implemented to increase collaboration between actors within a firm on innovation …

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Functional Chains of Knowledge Management - Effects on Firms' Innovative Performance

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for the innovation success of firms. It is assumed that the functional chains of KM lead directly and indirectly to more innovative success via enhancing the recombination of internal and external knowledge assets. To...

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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMES: Creation of Knowledge but no Creation of Value

Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

technology SMEs. Innovation net- works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. knowledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more … product innovative than young SMEs. The positive relation between firm size and (process) innovation, disappears when networks …

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Determinants influencing the choice of a cooperation partner

Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper provides empirical tests of hypotheses of cooperative behavior provided by evolutionary approaches in the resource-based view of the firm. The influences of "technological proximity", individual incentives to cooperate and managerial tools to the choice of research partner are...

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