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Evolutionary theories of technological change and industrial dynamics give primary importance to interaction between heterogeneous agents, endowed with complementary assets and competencies. Accordingly, support to co-operative R&D is central to technology policy, as a mean for increasing system...
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organisation and innovation affect Japanese and US MNEs' global R&D networks and transnational learning, based on case studies of … innovation networks because the liberal institutional environment within which US MNEs have developed enables them to extend …
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Innovation may be seen as a process of knowledge creation and the speed and direction of knowledge creation reflects … exposed to the need to engage in incremental product and service innovation the economic potential of diffusing good practices … aiming at promoting innovation and knowledge creation. …
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This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing … the link between innovation and profits separately for innovators and non-innovators, and for indigenous innovators and … non-innovators and externally-owned plants. We also consider the determinants of innovation over the distribution of plant …
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Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the … complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … manufacturing plants. Using optimal combinations of cross-functional teams in the innovation process increases innovation success in …
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disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …
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externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …
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We examine the relationship between product liability litigation and innovation by systematically combining data on …
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We use the U.S. patent data merged with firm-level datasets to establish new facts about the role of mega firms in generating "novel patents"--innovations that introduce new combinations of technology components for the first time. While the importance of mega firms in novel patents had been...
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This paper contributes to the literature on innovation policies and institutional theory on conditions for effective … yield broader implications for organization and innovation …
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