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Competence Accumulation and Collaborative Ventures Evidence from the Largest European Electronics Firms and Implications for the EU Technological Policies
Giarratana, Marco; Torrisi, Salvatore - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001
This paper analyses the association between inter-firm collaborative agreements and the technological capabilities of the largest European electronics firms between 1984 and 1997. To this purpose we collected information about 2,240 R&D agreements sponsored by the EU and 1,970 non sponsored...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273121
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Tacit Knowledge, Organisational Learning and Innovation A Societal Perspective
Lam, Alice - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998
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 … the three levels interact to shape the learning and innovative capabilities of firms. The theory developed in this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273157
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Distance to Frontier and Appropriate Business Strategy
Coad, Alex - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260601
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Organizational and Innovative Flexibility Mechanisms and their Impact upon Organizational Effectiveness
Lund, Reinhard - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998
supported by information and communication technology founded on a common understanding among the users building upon learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627310
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Innovation, Learning Organizations and Industrial Relations
Nielsen, Peter; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003
Innovation may be seen as a process of knowledge creation and the speed and direction of knowledge creation reflects … the organizational set-up of the firm as well as its investments in R&D and training. Establishing ‘a learning … knowledge creation in the context of a learning economy. An important issue is to what extent direct and indirect participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260605
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Organizing Innovation Complementarities between Cross-Functional Teams
Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen; Mangiarotti, Giovanni - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627323
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Searching Low and High What Types of Firms use Universities as a Source of Innovation?
Laursen, Keld; Salter, Ammon - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003
link between the universities and industrial innovation, and the role of different search strategies in influencing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627360
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Diversity of Innovative Strategy as a Source of Technological Performance
Llerena, Patrick; Oltra, Vanessa - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000
. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an internal learning by searching strategy, while noncumulative firms adopt … an external learning strategy aiming at absorbing external sources of knowledge. The results show that the co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839256
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Firm Growth from a Knowledge Structure Perspective
Laursen, Keld; Mahnke, Volker; Vejrup-Hansen, Per - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1999
Although there are several theories of growth of the firm, the literature is limited in two interrelated respects. First, empirical evidence does not match well theoretical predictions. Second, the firm growth literature does not address the structure of knowledge both in firms and sectors as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627357
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Information Technology and Change in Danish Organizations
Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998
new learning paradigm or another paradigm labelled reliability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627324