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Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States

Lazonick, William - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Lazonick explains the origins of the new era of employment insecurity and income inequality, and considers what governments, businesses, and individuals can do about it. He also asks whether the United States can refashion its high-tech business model to generate stable and equitable economic...

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Emergent Innovation and Sustainable Knowledge Co-creation. A Socio-Epistemological Approach to “Innovation from within”

Peschl, Markus F.; Fundneider, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an...

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Designing an Optimal 'Tech Fix' Path to Global Climate Stability: Directed R&D and Embodied Technical Change in a Multi-phase Framework

David, Paul; van Zon, Adriaan - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2013

carbon-free technical options requiring physical embodiment in durable production facilities, and having performance …

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Inteligencia estratégica: un sistema para gestionar la innovación

Aguirre, Joao - In: ESTUDIOS GERENCIALES (2015)

La inteligencia estratégica es un concepto tradicionalmente empleado en contextos militares, de defensa e incluso como «secreto gubernamental», aunque existen tímidas aplicaciones de índole académica y administrativa. El presente artículo realiza una propuesta conceptual del término...

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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 7 (2009) 6, pp. 1261-1290

We construct a model where incumbents can either acquire basic innovations from entrepreneurs, or wait and acquire developed innovations from entrepreneurial firms supported by venture capitalists. We show that venture-backed entrepreneurial firms have an incentive to overinvest in development...

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Business Groups, Innovation and Institutional Voids in Latin America

Fulvio, Castellacci - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper presents an empirical analysis of the innovative activities of business groups in Latin America. It compares the innovativeness of group-affiliated firms (GAFs) and standalone firms (SAFs), and it investigates how country-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor...

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate the...

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Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets

Kuhn, Kai-Uwe; van Reenen, John; Genakos, Christos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

When will a monopolist have incentives to foreclose a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of his products with those of rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents from the monopoly market by "restoring" second degree price discrimination. In...

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The ecological system of innovation: A new architectural framework for a functional evidence-based platform for science and innovation policy

Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Models on innovation, for the most part, do not include a comprehensive and end-to-end view. Most innovation policy attention seems to be focused on the capacity to innovate and on input factors such as R&D investment, scientific institutions, human resources and capital. Such inputs frequently...

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Institutionalising Performance Management in R&D Organisations: Key Concepts and Aspects

Yawson, Robert M.; Sutherland, Alistair J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Organisations are under pressure not only to improve their performance but also to be able to demonstrate this improvement. This … the need to develop monitoring and evaluation systems that are capable of ensuring and demonstrating improved performance … December 2002. The project aimed to adapt and test a novel approach to performance management within three agricultural …

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