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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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We examine how industrial clustering affects biotechnology firms’ innovativeness, contrasting similar firms not located …
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This paper studies the geographical breadth of knowledge spillovers. Previous research suggests that knowledge spillovers benefit from geographical proximity in technologically active and rich regions more than elsewhere. An alternative view explains the geographical breadth of knowledge...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate how industrial development, manufacturing in particular, has been contributing to agrarian change. In order to address this issue, it analyzes the technical bases and structural specificities – i.e. time and scale constraints – of agricultural...
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The aim of this paper is to develop and implement an empirical model of firm behaviour. The data applied are patent applications taken out by 16 multinationals within telecommunications. The first dimension of the model deals with the strategic behaviour of firms. Second dimension deals with the...
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In the process of transferring scientific knowledge to industry the role of individual academics has received less attention than the other actors in this process. This paper aims to identify the characteristics of these key individuals, or gatekeepers, by analysing them within the context of...
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We present a model that links innovation effort to economic performance, along the lines of the Crépon et al (1998 … examines the relationship between innovation and performance for services sectors. This is relevant since much effort has been … trying to fulfill this gap the paper uses firm-level data from the Second Community Innovation Survey to estimate a …
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The purpose of this paper is to show the impact of heterogeneous partners in a biotechnology firm’s alliance portfolio … on innovation output. Previous literature has stressed that investments into the heterogeneity of partners in an alliance … 20 biotechnology firms and their 8502 alliances suggests that engaging in many alliances in general has a positive …
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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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