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The rapid developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and the increased use of ICT motivate the vision of an evolving digital economy. During the last decade this evolving digital economy has been the pre-eminent driver of structural change and economic growth at both the...
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In recent decades the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy. For example, the evolution in recent decades of the developed economies has been accompanied by a regional shift in economic activity away from traditional industrial regions to new agglomerations of high...
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be seen as an attempt to establish an innovation system in computer system development where these kind of different … values were pursued. The innovation system consisted of industry, research institutes, trade unions, and universities, and …
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This paper is devoted to the study of municipal diversity in retail and durables. Specifically, it analyzes how a region’s relative market-accessibility in a system (or hierarchy) of municipalities affects the extent of diversity. In the theoretical part of the paper a simple modelmunicipal...
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The importance of capital structure is explored by comparing existing archetypes of financial systems through a new methodological application. Differences in firms’ cost of capital show that capital structure is relevant in R&D and other investment decisions. The conclusions are that 1) there...
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investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … embeddedness in scientific, vertical and horizontal innovation systems. However, the advantage of higher R&D intensity and possible … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance …
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This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …
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The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …
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insights have also been gained as to how entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge are interrelated. Yet, a comprehensive … understanding is still lacking concerning the interface of all of those variables: knowledge, innovation, entrepreneurship and … commercialization through innovation, and the role of the entrepreneur in the growth process. The policy implications of recent research …
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consistent with the model. First, the modeled innovation process imply a persistent distribution of heterogeneous firms. Second …-dependent stochastic innovation process. …
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