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Innovation Process is Facilitated in Virtual Environment of R&D Teams
Shafia, Mohammad Ali; Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web … findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it …
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Innovation and Growth: A Survey of the Literature and a Case Study for Latin America
García, Danny - In: REVISTA ECOS DE ECONOMÍA (2007)
This paper analyzes the recent literature on innovation and its determinants from an institutional point of view …. Innovation is a concept that has been defined by several authors as implementing new ideas, processes, mechanisms and methods … process of innovation. This is analyzed theoretically …
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Due diligence, research joint ventures, and incentives to innovate
Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011
The decision to cooperate within R&D joint ventures is often based on expert advice. Such advice typically originates in a due diligence process, which assesses the R&D joint venture's profitability, for example, by appraising the achievability of synergies. We show that if the experts who...
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Capacites d'innovation : le capital de savoir, gage de survie et de croissance des entreprises
Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
Le present document decrit les constatations tirees d'un programme de recherche visant a souligner l'importance des competences qui decoulent des investissements dans l'actif incorporel pour le processus de croissance des entreprises. Le programme comportait deux parties. Premierement, des bases...
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Innovation Capabilities: The Knowledge Capital Behind the Survival and Growth of Firms
Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process of competencies that arise from investments in intangible assets. The program has consisted of two parts. First, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on...
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R&D and Productivity in German Manufacturing Firms
Harhoff, Dietmar - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 6 (1998) 1, pp. 29-50
This papcr uses a new firm panel data set to explore the relationship between R&D and productivity in German manufacturing firms for the period from 1979 to 1989. The results confirm the view that K&D is an important determinant of productivity growth. In the cross-section, the elasticity of...
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R&D and productivity growth: Evidence from the UK
Kafouros, Mario - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 14 (2005) 6, pp. 479-497
Although the econometric evaluation of R&D has attracted wide interest in many countries, it has not attracted much in the UK. The main objective of this paper is to fill this void, i.e., to estimate the impact of R&D on productivity growth of the UK manufacturing sector. However, there are some...
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Innovation for economic performance: the case of Latin American firms
Crespi, Gustavo; Arias-Ortiz, Elena; Tacsir, Ezequiel; … - In: Eurasian Business Review 4 (2014) 1, pp. 31-50
In this paper, a wide range of innovation indicators are analyzed in order to describe the innovation behavior of … Surveys define innovation rates as the share of firms introducing product and process innovations. The survey also measures … nature of the innovation process in the region. Statistics about the performance of LAC firms are provided using different …
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Public Energy R&D Priorities in Small EU Member States: Evidence from Denmark, Austria and the Netherlands
Scordato, Lisa - In: Journal of the Knowledge Economy 1 (2010) 3, pp. 202-218
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Leader-member exchange, trust, and performance in national science foundation industry/university cooperative research centers
Davis, Donald; Bryant, Janet - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 35 (2010) 5, pp. 511-526
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