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This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped and unique Eurostat International Sourcing Survey. The results are easy to summarize. First, the magnitude of R&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is...
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The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …
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The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …
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The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....
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This paper analyzes how different innovation-strategies of incumbent firms affect the quality of their entrepreneurial … files for the period 1997-2008, three types of incumbent firms are distinguished: firms that are engaged in innovation … new firm can be linked back to the innovation strategy of the parent firm. In contrast, there is strong evidence that …
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This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. When examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies, three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...
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of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …
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of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …
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cost implies that firms save money by smoothing innovation spending across the business cycle if they have available … so, we investigate possible differences in the innovation-cash flow link between high-tech firms and all exporters …, creation and exploitation innovation activities, persistent and non-persistent exporters. Applying a modified Euler model and …
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