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The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the publications of biomedical and exact scientists at the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001. We study...
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Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … development, firms typically are engaged in the acquisition of knowledge on the technology market and cooperate actively in R …
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We analyze the emergence and spatial evolution of the German laser systems industry. Regional knowledge in the related … downstream systems market. Entry into the materials processing submarket appears to be unrelated to academic knowledge in the … region, but the presence of laser source producers and the regional stock of laser knowledge are still highly predictive in …
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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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