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From automation to databased business models - digitalization and its links to innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises

Thomä, Jörg; Bischoff, Thore Sören - 2021

Digitalization is one of the main trends affecting firm-level innovation today. In this context, a better understanding … of the multidimensional relationship between digital technologies, competences and firm-level innovation is necessary …. For this purpose, this paper examines the role of digital transformation in the context of innovation activities of small …

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Workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises

Lorenz, Edward H.; Potter, Jonathan - 2019

This paper examines the relationship between workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or … higher rates of new-to-the-market innovations among SMEs and of SME innovation collaborations with other firms and …

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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success – An empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - In: Research Policy 40 (2011) 10, pp. 1453-1462

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. We look at innovative firms in the period from 2000 to 2002 taken from the Mannheim Innovation Panel and estimate the … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …

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Time Based Competition and Innovation

Thesmar, David; Thoenig, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

By choosing their organizations, firms trade-off productive efficiency and time spent in implementing innovation. We …

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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

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Competitiveness and R&D competition revisited

Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki; Cato, Susumu - In: Economic Modelling 31 (2013) C, pp. 541-547

This paper formulates a duopoly model of firms concerned with relative profits as well as their own profits and investigates the relationship between the degree of competitiveness in a market and R&D expenditure. We find a non-monotone relationship between the two variables. When the duopoly...

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Demystifying the role of culture in innovative regional economies

James, Al - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 9, pp. 1197-1216

-1216. Within the regional learning and innovation literature, the precise impact of regional 'culture' on firms' competitive … underpin innovation. Second, the paper measures the material impact of that regional cultural embedding on firms' innovative …

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Role transformations in collaborative R&D-projects as reciprocation between research, practice and policy

Vasstrøm, Mikaela; Normann, Roger - In: International Journal of Action Research 10 (2014) 2, pp. 184-212

This paper discusses how roles in R&D-projects can transform and develop through the duration of a project and how different types of knowledge reciprocate with policy learning at different scales. Research, practice and policy represent different but interconnected social spheres, each with...

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Does Outsourcing Result in the Outsourcing of Technological Competencies? An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Vertical Specialization on the Technological Competence Base of Fir...

Stephan, Michael - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 21 (2010) 3, pp. 308-331

Over the past two decades multinational firms from high-technology industries have increasingly relied on outsourcing of production to external suppliers. We present a theoretical framework that stems from the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) and develop hypotheses claiming that outsourcing...

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'The most important safety device is you!' On the specific nature of high-tech work process knowledge

Langemeyer, Ines - In: International Journal of Action Research 11 (2015) 1-2, pp. 14-39

This paper deals with the subjective and the collective nature of knowl-edge as it may develop in high-tech work processes. It argues that high-tech work requires not only skills but also experience of thinking and re-flecting these work processes through scientific concepts. This collective...

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