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Complementarity between technology make and buy in innovation strategies: Evidence from Belgiam manufacturing firms

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …

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E-supply chain management: Review, implications and directions for future research

Giménez, Cristina; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

This paper analyses the interaction of two topics: Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Internet. Merging these two fields is a key area of concern for contemporary managers and researchers. They have realized that Internet can enhance SCM by making real time information available and enabling...

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R&D cooperation and spillovers: Some empirical evidence

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which rate incoming spillovers more importantly and who can limit outgoing spillovers by a more effective...

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The organization of research corporations and researcher ability

Cassiman, Bruno - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

This paper analyzes the formation of Research Corporations as an alternative governance structure for performing R&D compared to pursuing in-house R&D projects. Research Corporations are private for-profit research centers that bring together several firms with similar research goals. In a...

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Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units

Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

also find that higher innovation levels and experience from the parent university are associated with higher efficiency …

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Clusters of entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...

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Employment protection, international specialization and innovation

Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996

, improvements in existing goods, while the low firing cost country will more specialize in 'primary innovation', that is, invention …

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External technology sources: Embodied or disembodied technology acquisition

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the … technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of the firm's innovation strategy. We take …

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Externalities and interdependent growth: Theory and evidence

Ciccone, Antonio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996

I formulate and estimate a model of externalities within countries and technological interdependence across countries. I find that external returns to scale to physical capital within countries are 8 percent; that a 10 percent increase of total factor productivity of a country's neighbors raises...

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Falling real wages during an industrial revolution

Ciccone, Antonio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996

The Industrial Revolution was characterized by technological progress and an increasing capital intensity. Why did real wages stagnate or fall in the beginning? I answer this question by modeling the Industrial Revolution as the introduction of a relatively more capital intensive production...

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