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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 … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980453
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934890
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Product variety and price strategy in the ski manufacturing industry
Corrocher, Nicoletta; Guerzoni, Marco - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The present paper aims at examining the role of variety in the ski manufacturing industry and its relevance in firms' price setting strategies. In particular, it intends to investigate and empirically test two hypotheses concerning the relation between variety and prices. The first concerns the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090566
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The impact of market size and users' sophistication on innovation: the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle
Guerzoni, Marco - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090572
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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 … innovation strategy targeted at consumers and continuous R+D activities is positively related to KM usage. In addition, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032018
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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
This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and process innovation and sales growth of high … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090493
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Backbone services as growth enabling factor - an Input-Output analysis for South Africa
Fricke, Susanne; Dettmer, Bianka - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
While previous studies highlight the importance of the manufacturing sector in the economy, we argue that rather backbone services play a key role for economic growth. We perform an Input-Output analysis to determine the linkages between backbone services and manufacturing in South Africa. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775120
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Corruption and Innovation: A Grease or Sand relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it … facilitates marketing innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090534
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Employment Growth of New Firms
Stam, Erik; Gibcus, Petra; Telussa, Jennifer; Garnsey, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyses the association between dynamic capabilities and new firm growth, controlling for measures of firm resources, characteristics of the entrepreneur, and aspects of the environment. The central research question is: How strong is the relationship between dynamic capabilities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090511
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The role of R&D in new firm growth
Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
high growth firms, which are key in innovation and entrepreneurship policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090550