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Shifts in Innovation Power to Brazil and India: Insights from the Auto and Software Industries
Lema, Rasmus; Quadros, Ruy; Schmitz, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The global innovation map is changing. Until a few years ago innovation activities were concentrated in the US, Europe … and Japan. Not anymore. The rising powers of China, India and Brazil are encroaching on the innovation stronghold of the … shift in innovation power by concentrating on factors within the rising powers, such as their investment in high …
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Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States
Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25
How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability … education policy and practice into a key component of national innovation strategies: human capital development. Asian countries … are developing an emphasis on innovation and creativity at all levels of education, while the United States continues (via …
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Dynamic incentives in organizations: Success and inertia
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Karlsruhe … - 2010
We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
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Dynamic incentives in organizations: Success and inertia
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - 2010
We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302621
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Leveraging Resistance to Change and the Skunk Works Model of Innovation
Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2005
We study a situation in which an R&D department promotes the introduction of an innovation that results in costly re … implementing the so-called skunk works model of innovation where the R&D department is isolated from the rest of the organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749386
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Resting on Laurels: A Theory of Inertia in Organizations.
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2003
We present a model where the employees of a firm have to search for profitable business projects in a changing environment. Employees who have found a successful project in the past period are shown to be reluctant to search for new and better projects leading to corporate inertia. This reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749389
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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Designing dynamic research contests
Benkert, Jean-Michel; Letina, Igor - 2019 - Revised version
This paper studies the optimal design of dynamic research contests. We introduce interim transfers, which are paid in every period while the contest is ongoing, to an otherwise standard setting. We show that a contest where: (i) the principal can stop the contest in any period, (ii) a constant...
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Economic modeling in the management of transition to bioeconomy
Busu, Cristian; Busu, Mihail - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 50, pp. 24-40
development of the producers is a direct consequence of the association of a number of factors such as innovation and technology …
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Responsible research and innovation : a conceptual contribution to theory and practice of technology management
Nazarko, Lukasz - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 20 (2019), pp. 342-351
The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a popular term as a result of making it a cross … desirability of the innovation process and its products. The work presents a review of the state-of-art scientific literature on … Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) together with a synthesis of theoretical and practical challenges faced by this new …
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