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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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through the marketplace, whereas the benefits of systemic innovation are said to be appropriated best by centralised … innovation. The modularised versus systemic architecture approach therefore appears to be a too sweeping dichotomy for describing … what can better be perceived as an array of different practices for balancing innovation contribution with the ability of …
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This paper investigates in an exploratory manner the licensing strategies pursued by firms whose business model is based on developing and licensing out their intellectual property rights (IPRs). These are not traditional suppliers, since they do not engage in production or commercialization,...
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By focussing on cumulativeness and spillover effects of technological knowledge, theories on technological regimes are predominantly supply side oriented in explaining industrial dynamics. This paper introduces demand side considerations as an additional explanation for industrial dynamics....
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The existing empirical evidence is somewhat inconclusive with respect to a number of the key predictions of the agency model. Although the reach of agency theory is considerably wider, the dominant portion of work has been taken up with examining the nature of the trade-off between risk and...
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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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knowledge (know-how and know-who). This paper extends this approach by arguing that the key vectors of innovation and growth lie …
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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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