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Managing Innovation in an Unstable World: Challenges of Global Competition for European Innovative and Proactive Firms

Binder, Carlo; Mantovani, Andrea - 2017

Innovation and marketing strategies adopted by multinational companies in the globalized economy are subject to continuous challenges. Consider EU exporting companies that produce, for example, solar panels. Depending on political elections and the ensuing support for environmental policies (or...

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The Social Uses of the Innovation Concept. A Qualitative Approach to the Discursive Logics for the Access to and Use of Information, Communication and Knowledge in Andalusia.

Rodríguez Victoriano, José Manuel; Wulff Barreiro, Enrique - 2010

In the semantic architecture of the society of the knowledge the innovation concept is the fundamental brick. It is an adobe that allows to construct very different discourses frequently opposed between them, in what the purpose of its social use concerns. In the present communication we...

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Environmental regulation and innovation in renewable energy technologies: Does the policy instrument matter?

Hille, Erik; Althammer, Wilhelm; Diederich, Henning - 2019

We examine how different renewable energy support policies affect innovation in solar and wind power technologies. The analysis is conducted using policy and patent data for a large sample of 194 countries and territories. The policy data allows distinguishing two dimensions of regulation, i.e....

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Information Technology Capability and Its Impact on Firms Performance

Turulja, Lejla; Bajgorić, Nijaz - 2015

performance are fundamentally due to the distinctive resources and capabilities that are valuable, rare, inimitable and … performance. The study uses survey data from managers and structural equation modelling to assess the relationships between IT … capability, firms' innovativeness and business performance. This study finds that both IT capability and innovation capability …

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The Consequences of Radical Patent-Regime Change

Donges, Alexander; Selgert, Felix - 2019

This paper analyzes the consequences of radical patent-regime change by exploiting a natural experiment: the forced adoption of the Prussian patent system in territories annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Compared to other German states, Prussia granted patents more restrictively by...

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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - 2014

Immigration has recently been at the centre of the political and economic agenda. Economists have studied extensively the impact of immigration on several economic and social indicators of host countries. The effect of immigration on innovation and technical change is, however, not much studied....

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ICT as a Supporting Factor for Innovation Activities

Zoroja, Jovana - 2015

Development and usage of information and communication technology (ICT) is continuously growing in the last 30 years. The main reason is that ICT has a great potential to improve the efficiency of business processes, to increase the competitiveness, but also to facilitate and drive innovations....

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Opening the Black Box of Innovation Processes in Virtual Communities

Sarma, Meera - 2017

Communities involved in free and open source activities possess special structural and processual characteristics that are conducive to innovative product development on-line. We suggest that this form of innovative, knowledgegenerating, community may benefit from being seen within the framework...

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Enterprise Systems and Innovations

Engelstätter, Benjamin - 2010

), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and firms' innovational performance for process as … medium-run of two to four years. Concerning product innovational performance, only CRM systems increase the firms' likelihood …

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Information Externalities in Bank Based Financing for Private Innovation - Can Specialization Overcome Asymmetries?

Höwer, Daniel; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2010

Investments in R&D have been identified as a cornerstone for growth and competitive advantages of firms and whole economies. We investigate the role that a firm's main bank plays for its investment in R&D. Existing literature suggests that the inherent information asymmetries of R&D projects...

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