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Two programmes regarding research funding are investigated with respect to their evaluation processes. One programme targets individuals and the other centers of excellence. The study attempts to disclose some of the features of the selection procedures and the aim is to contribute with further...
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Economic theory tells us that abnormal industry and firm profits will not persist for any length of time. Any industry or firm making profits in excess of the normal rate of return will attract entrants and this competitive process will erode profits. A substantial amount of research however,...
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investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance … that is subsequently exploited in affiliates abroad. Correspondingly, the innovation and productivity performance in …
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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 … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …
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labour productivity. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behaviour … choose and afford to have a complex innovation strategy are better off in terms of their future productivity in compare with …. Moreover, not all types of complex innovation strategies affect the future productivity significantly; rather, there are only …
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performance for 55 to 78 countries, using three measures of economic performance – economic output (GDP per capita), productivity … (total factor productivity) and innovative performance (patents). The results confirm the hypothesis, indicating that our …
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firms in terms of survival, productivity and growth? Using a panel of about 2,000 ex-employee starts ups, their parent …
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This paper assesses the contribution to productivity of firms’ internal innovation efforts and spatially …
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higher productivity, profitability and wage level than other firms. The second question is focused on the location of firms …
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correspond to asymmetries in the performance of firms with regard to productivity level and growth as well as innovativeness … distinctly higher level of productivity across all types of location. In addition, the productivity level of firms with …
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