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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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empirical case ¾ the entry of five MNCs into the Danish telecommunications cluster in Aalborg, the paper exemplifies its …
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We argue that strategizing fundamentally concerns disequilibrium phenomena, such as discovery, innovation, resource …
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A growing body of research on firms’ “open science” strategies rests on the notion that scientists have a strong preference for publishing and that firms are able to extract a wage discount if they allow scientists to publish. Drawing on a survey of 1,400 life scientists about to enter the...
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This paper investigates the potential impact of increased business R&D efforts in Europe on the total factor productivity gap between European and U.S. industry. The paper addresses Europe’s ambition, expressed at the 2000 Lisbon Summit to become “the most competitive and dynamic...
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: Science and Technology. This paper examines a recent institutional form that seems not to resemble either of the other two … technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with … Technology with respect to its ability to attract researchers. …
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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 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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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 marginalized countries. The technology clubs also differ with respect to their …
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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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