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Various drivers of construction innovation are distinguished and classified in four distinctive categories …: environmental pressure, technological capability, knowledge exchange, and boundary spanning. Innovation drivers in these categories …. Empirical research in the Dutch construction industry illustrates that the innovation drivers are used by managers of the …
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Commonly increases in total factor productivity (TFP) are associated with technological innovations measured by R&D expenditures. Empirical evidence seems to corroborate this relationship. However, in trading countries like the Netherlands, productivity increases, even in industry, can also be...
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In this study we address the potential rise of innovative regions in Central and Eastern Europe by connecting the interests of foreign investors and the interests of recipient regions as learning regions. Our exploratory results give a rather pessimistic picture in that enhancing the innovative...
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factors for innovation at the local level, based on micro survey information from firms. In seeking for prominent explanatory … variables for entrepreneurial innovation in various classes of European cities, a particular multivariate method - i.e., Regime … generates a wide range of interesting empirical results on innovation factors in European cities. …
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consider critical for success in the innovation process? From the perspective of the respondents, the entrepreneur is the most … important factor in the innovation process. Internal aspects dominate not only the list of success factors but also the top of … entrepreneurs do not consider external circumstances very important aspects of innovation success. They have a rather egocentric …
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This paper regards locational choice as an entrepreneurial act and seeks to identify the drivers of locational choice of SME finns. Based on a recent database on Dutch entrepreneurs, factoranalytic methods are deployed to trace three clusters of driving forces.
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