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Voluntary agreements and community development as CSR in innovation strategies

Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

, where a non-governmental organization (NGO) rather than a regulator watches over citizens' interests. The innovation … innovation process is considered in terms of a redistribution of profit towards community development, with or without additional … demonstrates that the firm's choice of VA hinges on the tradeoffs between appropriating the full innovation profit and paying a …

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Technological activities and their impact on the financial performance of the firm: Exploitation and exploration within and between firms

Belderbos, Rene; Faems, Dries; Leten, Bart; Van Looy, Bart - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

This paper analyzes the consequences for financial performance of technology strategies categorized along two dimensions: (1) explorative versus exploitative and (2) solitary versus collaborative. The financial performance implications of firms’ positioning along these two dimensions has...

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Persistence of and interrelation between horizontal and vertical technology alliances

Belderbos, Rene; Gilsing, Victor; Lokshin, Boris - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …

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Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor

Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...

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On India's plunge into Nanotechnology: What are good ways to catch-up?

Ramani, Shyama V.; Chowdhury, Nupur; Coronini, Roger; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

in the interests of economic growth or social welfare that India's science and innovation, and intellectual property …

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Experimentation with Strategy and the Evolution of Dynamic Capability in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector

Athreye, Suma; Kale, Dinar; Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

This paper demonstrates that radical regulatory changes can be tantamount to technological revolutions by studying Indian pharmaceutical firms. It shows that radical regulatory changes such as the Indian Patent Act of 1970, the New Industrial Policy of 1991 and the signing of TRIPS (Trade...

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Does Excellence in Academic Research Attract Foreign R&D?

Belderbos, Rene; Leten, Bart; Suzuki, Shinya - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

We examine the role of host countries’ academic research strengths in global R&D location decisions by multinational firms. While we expect that a firm’s propensity to perform R&D in a host country increases with the strength of local academic research, firms are expected to be...

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Technology alliances in emerging economies: Persistence and interrelation in European firms' alliance formation

Belderbos, Rene; Gilsing, Victor; Jacob, Jojo - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

We analyze patterns and determinants of technology alliance formation with partner firms from emerging economies, with a focus on European firms' alliance strategies. We examine to what extent European firms' alliance formation with partners based in emerging economies is persistent, that is: to...

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