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Barriers to Innovation in SMEs: Can the Internationalization of R&D Mitigate their Effects?

Tiwari, Rajnish; Buse, Stephan - 2007

SMEs new arenas to engage in what we may call are global innovation activities so as to gain, retain, and further … strengthen the competitive position. This pressure to go for global innovation is enhanced by given socio-demographic factors, e … carried out in the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg in Germany to identify barriers to innovation in selected industries and to …

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A Cross-sectional Analysis of Research and Development Expenditures.

Buchmann, Beau - 2007

operations include more business segments commit fewer revenues to innovation, while firms that operate in more geographic areas …

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Sources of innovation and ideas in ICT Firms in Australia

Hyland, Paul W.; Marceau, Jane; Sloan, Terrence R. - University of Central Queensland; University of Western …; … - 2004

firms utilise to sustain their competitive position through innovation. While the firms in the survey varied in size in …

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Foreign-owned R&D facilities in China, England, Germany, and Sweden ? An analysis of regional entry and integration behavior

Heimann, Philip - 2005

inextricably connected with both business- and economics-driven dimensions of innovation. In fact, the phenomenon of a foreign …-owned R&D facility implies that a company innovation system must in some way integrate with a regional innovation system. A … enabling a comparison of these innovation environments. The second step was to examine the characteristics of the foreign …

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More than Numbers: R&D-related Disclosure and Firm Performance.

Merkley, Kenneth Joe - 2011

This dissertation examines the relation between reported financial performance and qualitative disclosure in the research and development (R&D) disclosure setting. While the influence of performance on firms? disclosure decisions is a fundamental issue in the accounting literature, prior studies...

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HRM research in China : looking back and looking forward

Lamond, David; Zheng, Connie - 2010

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the field of human resource management (HRM) in China, with insights drawn from recent times to several millennia earlier, with a view to informing the further work that needs to be done to better understand managing people in...

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Research expenditures, technology transfer activity, and university licensing revenue.

Heisey, Paul W.; Adelman, Sarah W. - 2011

In this paper we relate university licensing revenues to both university research expenditures and characteristics of the university and the university technology transfer office. We apply the Hausman-Taylor estimator for panel data with time-invariant explanatory variables and the...

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Advancing cellulose-based nanotechnology.

Wegner, T.H.; Jones, P.E. - 2006

Nanotechnology has applications across most economic sectors and allows the development of new enabling science with broad commercial potential. Cellulose and lignocellulose have great potential as nanomaterials because they are abundant, renewable, have a nanofibrillar structure, can be made...

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A Tale of Two Market Failures: Technology and Environmental Policy

Jaffe, Adam B.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2004

Market failures associated with environmental pollution interact with market failures associated with the innovation … and information problems can further weaken innovation incentives. While environmental technology policy is fraught with …

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A study of the strategic environment of an R&D section within a larger organisation

Falkingham, Leslie T. - 2001

This work addresses the problem of how an R&D section should decide on a strategy to guide its work when there is no strategic direction supplied from above by the company. The work includes a participant observer case study carried out over five years in a single R&D section, an analysis of...

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