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Global Idea Sourcing - An empirical investigation into the mechanisms behind the usage of foreign business sources for innovation
Sofka, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2005
regulation. Hence, companies optimize or augment their innovation activities by invoking ideas from foreign suppliers. Then again … instead that a company may use its international value chain (customers, suppliers and competitors) to utilize foreign sources … for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561402
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMBRAINS
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
Human brain has invented the Computer&upgraded it to a level of Combrains. With Artificial Chemical Memory, these may grow to function as independent Iintellects, Master/Sponsor representatives and self- decision workers with autonomy&supreme capability. Like any human society learn and function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118844
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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?
Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005
Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it a private good, licensing it under the BSD does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134417
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Knowledge Creation as a Square Dance on the Hilbert Cube
Berliant, Marcus; Fujita, Masahisa - EconWPA - 2004
This paper presents a micro-model of knowledge creation and transfer in a small group of people. Our model incorporates two key aspects of the cooperative process of knowledge creation: (i) heterogeneity of people in their state of knowledge is essential for successful cooperation in the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062387
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Innovation, Market Structure and Economic Growth
Palma, Nuno Pedro Gonçalves - EconWPA - 2004
This paper presents a dynamic partial equilibrium model that endogenizes firms' investment decision on innovation …: product innovation causes horizontal expansion growth, and process innovation causes vertical expansion growth. Market … structure in different markets emerges as a consequence of different investment on innovation opportunities. Main variables that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134434
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Analysis and Measurement of Interactions in Innovation Systems: A Corporative and Sectoral approach.
Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel Zabala - EconWPA - 2005
Innovation Systems constitute an analysis framework, which allows comprehending the socio-economic structure of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119059
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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
landlocked country. Foreign direct investment is also less likely to go to places that are malaria- infested. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556001
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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
landlocked country. Foreign direct investment is also less likely to go to places that are malaria- infested. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118852
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INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION THROUGH SEQUENTIAL INVESTMENT: THE EFFECTS OF NATIONAL CULTURE ON BUYOUTS AND DISSOLUTIONS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS
FOLTA, TIMOTHY B.; FERRIER, WALTER J. - EconWPA - 1997
maintain flexibility or commit to a strategic direction. We consider that equity investments in foreign partners may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062391
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The evolution of retail banking services in United Kingdom: a retrospective analysis
Consoli, Davide - EconWPA - 2003
product line. The central idea of this paper is that innovation never occurs without simultaneous structural change. Thus, a … technological dimension reflecting the extent to which the diffusion of innovation (re)generates variety of micro level processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134541