Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 153
Cover Image
A Theory of the Evolution of Technology : Technological Parasitism and the Implications for Innovation Management
Coccia, Mario - 2020
This study proposes the theory of technological parasitism that may be useful for bringing a new perspective to explain and generalize the evolution of technology directed to sustain competitive advantage of firms and nations. Technological parasitism explains the relationship of mutualistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844979
Cover Image
Failures in Project Management : Analysis and Managerial Solutions
Coccia, Mario - 2023
This study investigates the failure in project management due to bounded rationality of organizations in the presence of complex and uncertain environments. Examples of failure in project management are described from pharmaceutical sectors (e.g., antibody drugs for Alzheimer’s disease), space...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343967
Cover Image
Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297531
Cover Image
Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097593
Cover Image
Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Kraft, Kornelius; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2014
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027138
Cover Image
Impact of educational and religious homogamy on marital stability
Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009
respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative … education and religiousness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271247
Cover Image
Impact of Educational and Religious Homogamy on Marital Stability
Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative … education and religiousness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578122
Cover Image
Bank credit supply and firm innovation
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2018
We analyze the causal effect of the credit supply shock to banks induced by interbank market disruptions in the recent financial crisis 2008/2009 on their business customers’ innovation activity. Using a matched bank-firm data set for Germany, we find that having relations with a more severely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798962
Cover Image
Strategy and Market Management of New Product Development and Incremental Innovation : Evidence From Italian SMEs
Calabrese, Giuseppe; Coccia, Mario; Rolfo, Secondo - 2015
The industrial structure of many European countries is dominated by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Although SMEs … the innovation process is very low. Moreover, if we consider the SMEs operating in the mature sectors, such as automotive … and machines tools, the situation is worrying. The aim of this paper is to analyse in-depth a sample of manufacturing SMEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036284
Cover Image
Project Management in Public Research Organisations : Strategic Change in Complex Scenarios
Coccia, Mario - 2015
The efficient organisation of public research bodies is important to increase the production of scientific research, which is more and more necessary for competitiveness in modern economies. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the new project-based organisation of the biggest public research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026342