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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success: an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 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/10010266686
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Habakkuk revisited: a history friendly model of American and British technology in the nineteenth century
Fontana, Roberto; Guerzoni, Marco; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2008
-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266665
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
drive innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266685
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270590
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Cluster innovation along the industry lifecycle
Eisingerich, Andreas; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2008
interorganizational network strength, openness, university collaboration, and intrapreneurship on radical innovation across adolescent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266642
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Innovation networks of high tech SMES: creation of knowledge but no creation of value
Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - 2007
This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge 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/10010263806
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Functional chains of knowledge management: effects on firms' innovative performance
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin - 2007
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for the innovation success of firms. It … recombination of internal and external knowledge assets. To analyse the embedding of KM in a firm's internal system of innovation we …. Using data on KM and innovation success of 351 German firms of the manufacturing sector and knowledge-intensive services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263833
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The use of knowledge management by innovators: empirical evidence for Germany
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 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/10010263855
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Absorptive capacity and innovation: When is it better to cooperate?
Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Savin, Ivan - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291823
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Preferential attachment and pattern formation in R&D networks: Plausible explanation or just a widespread myth?
Fritsch, Michael; Kudic, Muhamed - 2016
The emergence and solidification of network patterns is typically explained by the preferential attachment rule. The underlying logic is that a small number of actors which are characterized by an above average degree attract links at a higher rate than others. We raise the question as to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522061