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It is by now an established fact, that the so-called high technology industries have experienced growth rates way above average through most years. High technology industries share of the world manufacturers export has risen from 12 per cent in 1970 to 25 per cent in 1995. More than one-third of...
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This paper explores the impact of diversity of innovative strategies of firms upon the industrial dynamics through a micro-simulation model. We consider two types of firms each one being characterised by a specific innovative strategy. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an...
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The emergent “learning economy” is truly global in the sense that it deeply affects the whole world. The emergence of “learning societies”, though, is a process that takes place only in some regions, the patterns followed by this highly complex social process being far from converging....
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This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among companies we extend this to the community level. We then...
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This study investigates how the selection environment and modularity affect innovation in private infrastructure … innovations. An innovation succeeds contingent upon the capability of the stakeholder groups to develop collectively a plan to … finance and implement the innovation, which reconciles subjective individual assessments. Innovations can be particularly hard …
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skilled graduates in small, know-how-based firms can be instrumental in spurring innovation and upgrading changes in the firms … qualifications that can contribute positively. Graduates with other academic qualifications also hold potential for innovation and …
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attention as a strategic tool to fulfill “indigenous innovation”, and finally becomes part of national science and technology … policy to increase international competitiveness? We are going to use economics theories to understand the essence of the …
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attention has focused, in particular, on the importance of 'tacit knowledge' for sustaining firms’ competitiveness, and its role … in technological innovation and organisational learning. This paper argues that the extent to which tacit knowledge … coherent framework. It holds promise for interpreting and understanding the sources of differences in learning and innovation …
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This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...
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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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