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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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Costs and benefits of inter-departmental innovation collaboration

Cuijpers, Maarten; Guenter, Hannes; Hussinger, Katrin - 2011

Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been … tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of innovation-related collaboration within firms. Based on a sample of 433 German … manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to …

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Precocious inventors : early patenting success and lifetime inventive performance

Michlbauer, Theresa; Zwick, Thomas - 2021

This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked with survey data that provide information on an extensive...

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Strategic dual sourcing as a driver for free revealing of innovation

Matsushima, Noriaki; Zhao, Laixun - 2015

This paper examines the role of dual sourcing (e.g., outside options) in vertical and horizontal relations. In a bilateral monopoly market, if either the upstream or downstream firm has outside options, the other firm could lose from seemingly positive shocks, e.g., market expansion or...

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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success : an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. -- knowledge management ; innovation ; matching estimator …

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