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acquired R&D on innovation inclination. …
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Evolutionary theories of technological change and industrial dynamics give primary importance to interaction between heterogeneous agents, endowed with complementary assets and competencies. Accordingly, support to co-operative R&D is central to technology policy, as a mean for increasing system...
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This paper seeks to broaden our understanding of the concept underlying absorptive capacity at the macro –level, paying particular attention to the growth and development perspectives. We provide definitions of absorptive and technological capacity, external technology flows, productivity...
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services are explored: i) firms with a high level of absorptive capacity are more likely to collaborate on innovation than … firms with a relatively low level of absorptive capacity; ii) given that the firms collaborate on innovation, the main … innovation partner of knowledge intensive service firms with a high level of absorptive capacity is likely to be located further …
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Open source software (OSS) has recently emerged as a new way to organize innovation and product development in the …
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The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in various sorts of interactive learning processes. It questions the merit of the prevailing explanatory model where the realm of tacit knowledge transfer is confined to...
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context of developing countries. The main aim of the paper consists in investigating the impact of domestic innovation, via … domestic innovation, a critical component for the development of an absorptive capacity, is a significant determinant of …
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innovation through experimentation. It investigates the internal vs. market economies of scale and scope related to projects, as …-organized innovation projects by virtue of localized project ecologies and local labour markets of leaders and boundary spanners. It …
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Modularization refers to the opportunity for mixing-and-matching of components in a modular product design in which the standard interfaces between components are specified to allow for a range of variation in components to be substituted in a product architecture. It is through...
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The paper analyses the organization of the new product development process at FIAT from a resource-based perspective. The focus is on organizational resources for integrating dispersed specialist knowledge required in the development of complex products. The analysis shows how the application of...
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