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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers
Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of...
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A Note on Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Economic Growth
Thurik, Roy; Wennekers, Wennekers, A.R.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001
The aim of the present short paper is to show that since the 1970s the world has changed considerably, and that this change has had consequences for the current policy debate on the determinants of economic growth. Our paper deals with some aspects of the recent scientific literature on the...
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Agglomeration and New Establishment Survival: A Mixed Hierarchical and Cross-Classified Model
Burger, Martijn Johan; Oort, Frank van; Raspe, Raspe, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
Recent empirical studies in regional science and urban economics show that agglomeration economies may be one source of the uneven distribution of economic activities and economic growth across cities and regions. At the same time, the body of research into the importance of agglomeration...
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Inkoop, Leveranciers en Innovatie: Van VOC tot Space Shuttle
Wynstra, Wynstra, J.Y.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
Finn Wynstra is professor by special appointment in Purchasing and Supply Management at RSM Erasmus University, on behalf of the Dutch Association for Purchasing Management (NEVI) and the 'Vereniging Trustfonds EUR'. He studied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and conducted his PhD...
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Realizing Innovations in Service Firms: new organizational forms and supporting processes
van der Aa, van der Aa, W.; Elfring, Elfring, T. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001
only technological innovations but also organizational innovations have been distinguished. In the service industry … organizational innovations seem to play a significant role. The literature on innovations makes little mention of new organizational … various service industries. The case studies shed some light on innovations in multi-unit forms, combinations of services and …
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Contagion and heterogeneity in new product diffusion: An emperical test
Stremersch, Stefan; van den Bulte, van den Bulte, C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003
Marketing researchers often assume that innovation diffusion is affected by social contagion. However, there is increasing skepticism about the importance of contagion and, as has long been known, S-shaped diffusion curves can also result from heterogeneity in the propensity to adopt. To gain...
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Appropriability in Services
Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005
Services constitute a major part of the economy, and, contrary to popular believe, service firms do innovate. In this paper I take a closer look at one aspect of innovation in services: appropriability. I discuss the different elements that are possibly of importance for appropriability, and...
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A multi-country study of the adoption of ERP systems
van Everdingen, van Everdingen, Y.M.; Waarts, Waarts, E. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003
Studies on the adoption of innovations by companies generally include micro-level and meso-level variables in order to … explain a company's receptiveness to innovations. This study adds to the literature by investigating the role of macro …
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Flexible Labor and Innovation Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Firm-Level Data
Zhou, Zhou, H.; Dekker, Dekker, R.; Kleinknecht, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of inno¬va¬tive new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” la¬bor markets enhances...
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The Management of Innovation in Project Based Firms
Keegan, Keegan, A.; Turner, Turner, J.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000
Innovation is an important area of management theory, but there is a paucity of research on innovation in project based firms. Project based firms are simultaneously becoming a more vital and important organisational context, exemplifying many current managerial challenges. In this paper we...
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