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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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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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Structural Holes, Innovation and the Distribution of Ideas

Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

We model knowledge diffusion in a population of agents situated on a network, interacting only over direct ties. Some agents are by nature traders, others are by nature "givers": traders demand a quid pro quo for information transfer; givers do not. We are interested in efficiency of diffusion...

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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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Network-independent partner selection and the evolution of innovation networks

Baum, Joel; Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

that firms' knowledge bases must "fit" in order for joint learning and innovation to be possible, and thus for an alliance …

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The co-evolution of organizational performance and emotional contagion

Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas; Weehuizen, Rifka - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012

In this paper we model interactions between organizational structures, job stress, emotional contagion and organization performance. An organization is modelled as solving problems or performing tasks. Tasks enter the organization and can be addressed by a subset of its members. Organization...

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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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Fits and Misfits: Technological Matching and R&D Networks

Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas; Sanditov, Bulat - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

This paper presents an economic model of R&D network formation through the creation of strategic alliances. Firms are randomly endowed with knowledge elements. They base their alliance decisions purely on the technological fit of potential partners, ignoring social capital considerations and...

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