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investigations that have focused on the relationship between innovation and employment, the originality of our approach lies in our …-creating potential of firms of different sizes. As a result, we focus on the effect of innovation on total number of jobs, whereas … previous studies have focused on the effect of innovation on firm behavior. Indeed, previous studies have typically taken the …
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How do financial markets respond to firms' efforts at innovation ? To answer this question, we measure innovation by …. Whilst standard regression techniques find a positive relationship between innovation and growth, quantile regression … and show that these firms owe a lot of their success to their previous efforts at innovation. However, there are also …
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Innovation is commonly seen as the principal engine of economic development. In this paper, we investigate the … microfoundations of economic growth by relating innovation to sales growth at the firm-level, for incumbent firms in four «complex …
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Standards and norms are central objects for institutional studies. However, their role in innovation and the creation … between standard setting and innovation, in the context of emerging organizational fields. We consider standardization in … emerging fields as a socio-technical process, which must simultaneously promote a certain degree of innovation and enroll …
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paper investigates the role of contracts, a hitherto understudied innovation influent, in generating more conducive … sustainable energy innovation and the design project. Furthermore, the dynamics lead to favouring of uptake of existing … policy intervention for innovation supportive dynamics in construction projects. …
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, notably industry, when it comes to innovation; as mechanically responding to external (client) needs and implementing … those related to innovation and sustainability. …
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Judging from the number of communities and cities striving or claiming to be sustainable and how often eco-development is invoked as the means for urban regeneration, it appears that sustainable and eco-development have become "the leading paradigm within urban development" (Whitehead 2003). But...
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How does innovation come about in a highly institutionalized field like the construction sector? The construction … national legislation. It tends to lag behind other sectors of the economy when it comes to innovation, being perceived as … offers a unique opportunity to study in real time how innovation emerges within a highly institutionalized field. …
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L'aménagement durable comme opportunité d'innovation. Les éco-territoires représentent une opportunité d'innovation …
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This paper explores innovation and social behaviourist theory in relation to sustainable urban projects in the highly … theory and innovation theory and to facilitate innovative design in urban projects. …
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