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Hidden Champions (HCs) are firms unknown to the wider public, but global leaders in the niche markets they serve. This paper looks at distinctive features of these firms, focusing on their dynamic capabilities. Employing a unique data base on German firms, we identify a representative sample of...
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Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation capabilities and economic performance. However, empirical evidence on how the digital transformation may affect their success story remains scarce. I argue that HCs show stronger...
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We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...
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We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
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The concept of Open Innovation (OI) has breathed new life into both empirical research and industry practice concerned with distributed and collaborative modes of innovating. Certainly, the volume of OI research and its impact on practice has been remarkable. However, equally remarkable is the...
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The aim of this volume is to draw international attention to the key role that education can play in both preventing … the devastating consequences of conflict on a country's education systems and outcomes, as well to emphasize the … importance of maximizing the opportunities to reform education systems presented by a reconstruction setting, adopting a long …
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support achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for poverty reduction and Education for All. …
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government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary education. Though dropout and course …
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. The meeting aimed to harness good practices, and knowledge for furthering judicial education, based on the premise that … judicial excellence, judicial ethics, and the role of human rights, e-learning, and distance education, in-service training and … evaluation methodologies, attitudinal change in the courts, and the role of education and strategies to inspire future …
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attention to the role that tertiary education can play in undergirding knowledge-based strategies for growth and competitiveness …, the types of tertiary education policies that can nurture this relationship, and the national-level conditions that shape …-up: tertiary education for growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report examined the human resource implications of more knowledge …
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