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The challenge of measuring innovation in emerging economies' firms: A proposal of a new set of indicators on innovation

Marins, Luciana - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

The traditional indicators on innovation rely on the linear assumption that research leads to development, centring on … the measurement of inputs and outputs. Based on the traditional innovation indicators, recent studies focused on the … industrial innovation process at Latin America state that nowadays Latin American firms display a passive role at world …

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Inter-firm technology transfer: Partnership-embedded licensing or standard licensing agreements?

Hagedoorn, John; Lorenz-Orlean, Stefanie; Kranenburg, Hans - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

When companies decide to engage in technology transfer through licensing to other firms, they have two basic options: to use standard licensing contracts or to set-up more elaborate partnership-embedded licensing agreements. We find that broader partnership-embedded licensing agreements are...

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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer

Hall, Bronwyn; Helmers, Christian - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area …

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Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and Their Interplay

Niosi, Jorge; Tschang, F. Ted - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

the MNC. At the same time, the innovation systems perspective is necessary to explain the foundations of the industry. The …

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Approach for Analysing Capabilities in Latecomer Software Companies

Rousseva, Rossitza - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

Software development activities have been identified as a 'window of opportunity' for latecomer companies. Notwithstanding the growth of software development activities in the latecomers, there are single exceptional cases of companies that have successfully launched their own products in global...

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Intra-firm Technology Transfer and R&D in Foreign Affiliates: Substitutes or Complements? Evidence from Japanese Multinational Firms

Belderbos, René; Ito, Banri; Wakasugi, Ryuhei - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

R&D in foreign affiliates and technology transferred from their parent firms are important potential drivers of productivity in host countries. In this paper we examine the simultaneous impact of local R&D and intra-firm international technology transfer on productivity growth in foreign...

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Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe

Zhang, Ying; Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

Since end of the 1990s, the world has been witnessing a phenomenon of internationalisation of Chinese companies. This internationalisation is often understood through FDI inflows, whereby multinational companies establish their presence in a form of subsidiaries overseas. However, lately many...

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Technological Capabilities with Different Degree of Coherence: A Comparative Study of Domestic-Oriented vs. Export-Driven Bulgarian Software Companies

Rousseva, Rossitza - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

The paper makes an attempt to examine systematically the capabilities for software production in a latecomer context and to propose an approach for analysing the technological capabilities (TC) in a latecomer software industry. Taking the analysis one step further than identifying capabilities,...

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Russia's emerging multinationals: trends and issues

Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

The paper focuses on the emergence of Russia's multinational companies. It aims to analyse their motives to internationalise as well as the approaches to internationalisation. While relevance of the theoretical perspectives is highlighted, the intention of the paper is to contribute to the...

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Localisation strategies of firms in wind energy technology development

Perrot, Radhika; Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

technology and innovation more closely into development of sustainable energy markets in developing countries. …

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