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Introducing Academic Skills in Know-how-based Firms Innovative Potential or Non-complementarity?

Nielsen, René N. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

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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Discontinuous Innovation Capability Accumulation in Latecomer Natural Resource-processing Firms: Evidence from Brazil

Figueriredo, Paulo N. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2010

Most of the studies that describe the building of innovation capability in emerging and developing economies have … pathways followed by firms in their accumulation of innovation capability involved a qualitative departure from the established … of the levels and speeds of the accumulation of innovation capability; (3) firms that have attained progressively higher …

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Information Technology and Change in Danish Organizations

Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational change and information technology (IT) in Danish manufacturing and service companies. The data material is a survey covering 1900 Danish companies. In the paper it is shown that there in a three-year period are major...

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Selective Intervention and Internal HybridsInterpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization

Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001

Infusing hierarchies with elements of market control has become a much-used way of simultaneously increasing entrepreneurialism and motivation in firms. However, this paper argues that such “internal hybrids,” particularly in their radical forms, are inherently hard to successfully design...

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The Long Term Development of OECD Export Specialisation Patterns: De-specialisation and "Stickiness"

Dalum, Bent; Laursen, Keld; Villumsen, Gert - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996

The paper examines an issue related to the discussion of national specificity - whether the group of OECD countries are characterised by a high degree of stability of their export specialisation patterns at the country level or not. During a period of nearly three decades from 1965 to 1992, 20...

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Convergence and Divergence among Technology Clubs

Castellaci, Fulvio - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

The paper investigates cross-country differences in technology in a large sample of developed and developing economies over the 1990s. The empirical analysis indicates the existence of three technology clubs with markedly different levels of technological development: advanced, followers and...

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Nascent Entrepreneurs, Innovation and Financing Constraints

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

Innovative nascent entrepreneurs face the problem of obtaining finance, mainly due to information problems. We use new data on capital seeking start-ups allowing distinction between planning stage and early stage. Being innovative does not affect the probability of having external finance in the...

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Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing - From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking

Maskell, Peter; Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation … low-cost countries: the insourcer/vendor may not only offer cost advantages, but also quality improvement and innovation …

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Interactive Learning Spaces and Development Policies in Latin America

Arocena, Rodrigo; Sutz, Judith - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

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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Lead Users as Facilitators of Knowledge Sharing in Community Setting

Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Laursen, Keld - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

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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