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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273142
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On the Marshall - Jacobs Controversy It takes two to tango
Panne, Gerben van der; Beers, Cees van - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
The literature is inconclusive as to whether Marshallian specialization or Jacobian diversification externalities favour regional innovativeness. The specialization argument poses that regional specialization towards a particular industry improves innovativeness in that industry. Regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627387
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Innovation, Learning Organizations and Industrial Relations
Nielsen, Peter; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260605
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Organizing Innovation Complementarities between Cross-Functional Teams
Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen; Mangiarotti, Giovanni - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the … complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … manufacturing plants. Using optimal combinations of cross-functional teams in the innovation process increases innovation success in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627323
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Searching Low and High What Types of Firms use Universities as a Source of Innovation?
Laursen, Keld; Salter, Ammon - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003
link between the universities and industrial innovation, and the role of different search strategies in influencing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627360
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839229
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Organisational Change, Innovation and Human Resource Development as a Response to Increased Competition
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke; Kristensen, Frank Skov - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997
competition is a primary driving force behind organisational change and technical innovation. Firms are divided into three groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169041
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Knowledge Flows Through Social Networks in a Cluster Interfirm versus University-Industry Contacts
Østergaard, Christian R. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007
Knowledge spillovers from a university to the local industry play an important role in clusters, but we know little about these spillovers. This paper examines empirically the extent of university-industry informal contacts. Furthermore, it analyses the characteristics of an engineer that...
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Focal Firms as Technological Gatakeepers within Industrial Districts Knowledge Creation and Dissemination in the Italian Packaging Machinery Industry
Malipiero, Alessandro; Munari, Federico; Sobrero, Maurizio - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005
Despite the diffusion of communication tools and boundary spanning technologies, knowledge flows in innovation … innovation activities are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273150
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273111