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Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …
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findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …
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Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that...
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This paper aims to identify factors that relate to scientists’ propensity to make commercially significant scientific discoveries (inventions) and to describe how these inventions are commercialized. Based on a large survey of academics active in different fields of science at U.S....
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The study investigates, by using econometric evaluation methods, how the usage of Fin-pros (a public agency promoting internationalization of business) services impacts on the internation-alization and performance of small and medium-sized firms in Finland. We measure internationalization and...
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organizations in the Finnish innovation and business support system. Finpro regards its mission to include increasingly a role of an …
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innovation and finds that they are qualitatively different from those found in earlier studies of more generally representative …, only the largest firms were likely to identify patents as the most important method of appropriating innovation returns … regarding the functioning of the existing systems of intellectual property rights when key policy goals include innovation by …
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consider three factors that may affect the adoption decision : product complexity, architectural innovation and competency …
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This descriptive paper analyses structural characteristics of Finnish university departments (FIDs) and benchmarks them against foreign university departments from Scandinavia, the UK and the US (FODs). In the first place the study aims to reveal information on differences in department size. In...
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