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investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …
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relatively low innovation score, a feature reversing the trend observed in most European Union countries. Three empirical … scenarios, one for each innovation output, are defined and analyzed following a random-effects probit panel model separately …
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Small firms are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role to promote economic development. SMEs in the beginning of implementing new technologies always face capital shortage and need technological assistance. Available ERP systems...
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Using patent citation data for the U.S., we test whether knowledge spillovers in biotechnology are sensitive to distance, and whether that sensitivity has changed over time. Controlling for self-citation by inventor, assignee and examiner, cohort-based regression analysis shows that physical...
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efficient systematic development and innovation at the local level, particularity during a time of economic crisis. The … establishment of Institutes of Local Development and Innovation (ITAK) is primarily geared towards promoting innovative …
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efficient systematic development and innovation at the local level, particularity during a time of economic crisis. The … establishment of Institutes of Local Development and Innovation (ITAK) is primarily geared towards promoting innovative …
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As a first step towards understanding the evolution of small groups in firms, this paper develops and tests a simple decision-theoretical model of research-unit evolution in which, as managers resolve their uncertainty over time, they shut down under-performing units and remove under-performing...
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study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …
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This study investigates the links between organizational culture, the use of open innovation sources and the …), which fosters creativity, learning and inter-employee cooperation - will correspond with a greater scope of open innovation … innovative culture and the scope of open sources of innovation. However, innovative culture had no direct effect on the …
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Increasingly, eco-innovation is a major challenge for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). To diffuse eco-innovation …
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