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impacts negatively on product innovation activities (both in terms of propensity and success), b) that the effect of em …-ployee staying rate (measured by the share of employees that remain in the firm from one year to the next) on innovation follows an …
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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between technological competencies (TC) and firm performance. Theoretically, the importance of TC is well established and widely accepted. Therefore, it is surprising that a number of empirical studies have been unable to confirm a substantial positive...
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We estimate the respective importance of spatial sorting and agglomeration economies in explaining the urban wage premium for workers with different sets of skills. Sorting is the main source of the wage premium. Agglomeration economies are in general small, but are larger for workers with...
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, focusing on the relation between institutions and innovation practices and taking into account the diversity of actors …
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This paper draws on observations from a long-established network in France, located around the town of Cognac – site of distilled beverages with the same name. Firms within this network have been successful in developing new types of products in the past decades, drawing on and diverging from...
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international panel data set of large R&D performing firms, we can show empirically that a firm’s innovation activities affect its …
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Much has been written about innovation cooperation. But little research has been done to explain national differences … thereof. Using macro and micro evidence from the fourth Community Innovation Survey, we econometrically investigate the extent … to which national framework conditions account for the propensity of firms to cooperate on innovation at home and abroad …
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Since the seminal work of Archibugi and Michie (1995) on the globalization of innovation, several authors have tried to … understand the complex relationship between innovation and internationalization, mainly using firm or sectoral level data …. However, most of them tend to focus on just one form of globalization of innovation – exploitation of technology, research …
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The focus in this paper is on industrial dynamics and its impact on energy systems. We highlight some fundamental patterns of this long-term dynamics, using the Dahmenian concept ‘development blocks’, with ‘market widening’ and ‘market suction’, and discuss the implications for...
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This paper analyses the role of university knowledge in innovation processes of cultural industries. Most of the … previous studies on cultural industries highlighted the importance of locally clustered firms in innovation processes. Studies … patterns and innovation processes of new media firms in Scania, Southern Sweden. The findings reveal that innovation …
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