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Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric - 2023

COVID-19, innovation, and technical efficiency for 13 Caribbean countries using the Innovation, Firm Performance, and Gender …

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Shoaling (School of Fish) as Competitive Strategy

Muthusamy, Senthil Kumar - 2015

Managers of established firms as well as emerging firms continually search for unique strategies that ensure better returns with minimal risk, and that enable their businesses to effectively outsmart the competitive challenges by attaining the advantages in terms of innovation, cost efficiency...

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Adverse Effects of Patent Pooling on Product Development and Commercialization

Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Zhang, Nanyun - 2014

The conventional wisdom is that the formation of patent pools is welfare enhancing when patents are complementary, since the pool avoids a double-marginalization problem associated with independent licensing. This conventional wisdom relies on the effects that pooling has on downstream prices....

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Focused Firms and the Incentive to Innovate

Corts, Kenneth S. - 2015

This paper explores the possibility that a firm may make a credible strategic commitment to high levels of innovation by limiting its horizontal or vertical scope. Specifically, I develop a model in which a firm decides whether to undertake an innovation that affects a system of products, which...

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Organizational culture and open innovation performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Poland

Mazur, Jolanta; Zaborek, Piotr - In: International journal of management and economics 51 (2016) 1, pp. 104-138

performance of SMEs. The main hypothesis of the study is that a special type of organizational culture (termed innovative culture … sources and higher levels of innovative, operational and financial performance. The study was based on a representative CATI … influence on an index of operational performance and ROI. Such statistical patterns suggest that fostering innovative culture is …

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Application of 'Small Steps Strategy' in the Management of European Companies

Mandru, Lidia - 2014

The extension of the European Union represents a huge opportunity for the companies, but in an equal measure it is a real challenge, namely the one to face competition with European enterprises. Quality stands for a constituent part of the competitiveness but the extension of the European Union...

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Marketing Communications Model for Innovation Networks

Correia, Tiago João; Mateus, Américo; Leonor, Susana - 2015

Innovation is an increasingly relevant concept for the success of any organization, but it also represents a set of internal and external considerations, barriers and challenges to overcome. Along the concept of innovation, new paradigms emerge such as open innovation and co-creation that are...

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Small responsible innovators and open innovation towards sustainability : networks conditions

Geenhuizen, Marina S. van; Ye, Qing - 2013

Open innovation is key for innovators responding to major problems in the world, including energy, healthcare, water and the environment, and bringing transitions in socio-technical systems near. This paper has a focus on university spin-off companies as a channel of market introduction of new...

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The impact of emerging market competition on innovation and business strategy : evidence from Canada

Küng, Lorenz; Li, Nicholas; Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2017 - This version: December 2017

How do firms in high-income countries adjust to emerging market competition? We estimate how a representative panel of Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports. Whether firms invest in process or product...

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"Pact for innovation" to promote the EU’s major aim of convergence

Kritikos, Alexander - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 146-147

Economic convergence is a major aim of the EU. Innovation and investment in economically weaker regions are key steps to foster convergence • Public institutions and the regulatory environment for investments differ substantially across EU member states and increase economic disparities •...

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