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Technological capability building through networking strategies within high-tech industries

Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Beerkens, Bonnie - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

the rate of innovation for companies with small patent and alliance portfolios. However, when the patent portfolio and … technologies have higher levels of innovation performance in subsequent years than companies that solely invest in incremental …

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Exploration and Exploitation in Technology-based Alliance Networks

Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Beerkens, Bonnie; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

within the context of technological innovation. We differentiate among a firm's direct ties, indirect ties and degree of …

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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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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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The Innovative Performance of Alliance Block Members: Evidence from the Microelectronics Industry

Duysters, Geert; Lemmens, Charmianne; Letterie, Wilko; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

The primary goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of the complex relationship between the positioning of companies in alliance networks and their innovative performance. In particular, we expect that a firm's innovative performance depends partly on its position in specific network...

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External technology sourcing: The effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice

Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Vrande, Vareska van de - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

This study examines the effect of external and relational uncertainty on the governance choice for inter-organizational technology sourcing. We develop a number of hypotheses about the impact of environmental turbulence, technological newness, technological distance and prior cooperation on the...

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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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Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions

Schoenmakers, Wilfred; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

also on the importance of alliances and an open innovation system for the development of radical inventions. …

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