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Works councils, training activities and innovation : a study of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - 2014

Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management and focuses on the role of works councils as a specific...

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Sources of Innovation and Technology Capability Development in the Indian Automobile Industry

Kale, Dinar - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 4 (2012) 2, pp. 121-150

In the last decade the Indian auto industry has shown increasing levels of technological sophistication and significant growth. The Indian auto industry consists of local firms with indigenous design and development capability, well established global brands and has marketing presence in Indian...

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Sustainable Excellence of Industrial Companies. Evaluation of Acumulated Synergies

POPESCU, Radu - In: Economia. Seria Management 8 (2005) 1, pp. 137-152

Sustainable excellence is a modern field of research, a problem for both managers and scientists. The paper offers a method in order to guide the steps toward sustainable development of the industrial companies.With the help of 21 criteria it is measured the increasing accumulated synergy of the...

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Brokeraggio tecnologico nel settore metalmeccanico in Emilia-Romagna: dal Parco Scientifico Tecnologico ex-SIPE a CRIT srl

Sardo, Stefania - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2009

This research proposes an investigation into the creation and the later development, in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, of a private company called CRIT Srl, constituted by a group of large and medium-sized mechanical firms. The purpose of CRIT is not only to act as a technology broker,...

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Sales Range and Innovation Activity in the Industry System of Poland

Swiadek, Arkadiusz - 2017

In the literature, there is a discussion on the importance of the spatial distans to the user in the context innovation activity. Although, most of this kind of studies concentrate on exporting enterprises and compare them to domestic ones. Exporting activity is very important for catching-up...

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The performance effect of environmental innovations

Soltmann, Christian; Stucki, Tobias; Wörter, Martin - 2013

such innovations affect performance. To analyse the relationship between green innovation and performance, new industry … results show that green inventions are U-shape related to performance. However, the turning point is quite high and hence only …

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Innovation in green energy technologies and the economic performance of firms

Kruse, Jürgen - 2016

on the economic performance of firms. My analysis is conducted on a panel of 8,619 patenting firms including 968 green … energy patenters from 22 European countries over the period 2003 to 2010. I measure economic firm performance in terms of … innovation has a statistically significant negative impact on economic firm performance. In contrast, nongreen energy innovation …

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Innovation in green energy technologies and the economic performance of firms

Kruse, Jürgen - 2016

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Invention and International Diffusion of Water Conservation and Availability Technologies: Evidence from Patent Data

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Haščič, Ivan; Johnstone, Nick - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2015

This paper identifies over 50 000 patents filed worldwide in various water-related adaptation technologies between 1990 and 2010, distinguishing between those related to water availability (supply) and water conservation (demand) technologies. The paper then analyses the innovation activity –...

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The Benefits of International Co-authorship in Scientific Papers: The Case of Wind Energy Technologies

Poirier, Julie; Johnstone, Nick; Haščič, Ivan; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2015

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of international co-authorship of scientific publications on patenting in wind energy technologies. It is found that the number of scientific publications co-authored by researchers in OECD countries has a positive and very significant impact on the...

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