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The cost-quantity relations and the diverse patterns of "learning by doing" : Evidence from India

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Mathew, Nanditha - 2016

"Learning-by-doing" is usually identified as a process whereby performance increases with experience in production. The paper investigates different patterns of "learning by doing", studying learning curves at product level. Cost-quantity relationships differ a lot across products belonging to...

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Grüne Innovationen der Grundstoffindustrie in NRW : eine Analyse der Patentanmeldungen aus den Jahren 2010 bis 2018 unter Berücksichtigung von branchen- und technologiespezifischen...

Küper, Malte; Koppel, Oliver; Kohlisch, Enno - 2021

patentierenden Innovation darstellen muss. Insgesamt konnten für den betrachteten Zeitraum etwa 8.200 (sowohl klimarelevante als auch … core and not a mere concomitant of the innovation to be patented. Overall, around 8,200 patent applications (both climate …

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Fessehaie, Judith; Rustomjee, Zavareh; Kaziboni, Lauralyn - 2016

This paper explores the linkages between the national systems of innovation of Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and … reveals four individual national systems of innovation, with different outcomes in terms of engineering skills development …, technical vocational education and training, research and development, innovation capabilities, and competitiveness of the …

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Does R&D-cooperation behavior differ between regions?

Fritsch, Michael - 2002

This paper investigates interregional differences in cooperative behavior of manufacturing establishments in the field of research and development (R&D). The empirical analysis for eleven European regions reveals a number of significant differences between these regions in the propensity to...

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Conditions for an efficient innovation process : the complementarity between new HRM practices and suggestion schemes

Paunescu, Mihai - 2005

these skills to increase the efficiency of process innovation in the stages of idea generation and implementation of new … schemes ; innovative work behaviour ; user innovation ; organizational learning ; tacit knowledge ; kaizen ; continuous …

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The dynamics of resource allocation in research organizations

Filson, Darren - 2000

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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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study

Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...

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Technology platforms in Europe : an empirical investigation

De Propris, Lisa; Corradini, Carlo - 2013 - revised version

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

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Institutionalized incentives for ingenuity : patent value and the German Employees' Inventions Act

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006

Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees' Inventions Act...

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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance

Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015

Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their careers. We combine survey information spanning the...

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