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Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the...
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Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company’s success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation is better achieved by working in team. The employed web services technology, although very popular … technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it should be noted that innovation has a positive …
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, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd …-related phenomena and practices — for example, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, user innovation, and peer production — relate to theories of …, and innovation: (1) the functions of sociality (sociality as extension of rationality, sociality as sensing and signaling …
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role of the effect of pooling on downstream innovation. The focus of this paper is on downstream product development and …
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role of the effect of pooling on downstream innovation. The focus of this paper is on downstream product development and …
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Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
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Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demo- graphics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058696
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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