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, concentrating on its three basic features: 1) a knowledge- and information-based technological change, 2) which is taking place in …
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This paper examines the diversity of linkages of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance for a … with a science linkage -which can be of various sorts- have superior innovation performance, in particular with respect to …
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Companies desiring to keep and improve their competitive advantage must be flexible enough to undergo change when needed. Meaningful change requires the ability to learn from their own as well as from others' experience. But learning is not easy, and there are many factors that may prevent it to...
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Innovation has shifted from being about one-off phenomena to being a continuous effort requiring creative engagement … sustainable capacity for innovation, creating a "culture of innovation" is becoming a priority. The concept of an "innovation … innovation culture in an organization. Specifically, we show how a cultural infrastructure that orients actors in the practices …
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This paper analyzes how advertising can be used to mislead rivals in an oligopoly environment with demand uncertainty. In particular, we examine a two-period game in which two firms each sell a differentiated product whose attractiveness vis-à-vis the competitor's product is unknown. In each...
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innovation activity of firms. Firstly, it summarizes the evolution of productivity, competitiveness, firms' strategies and the … state of innovation. A slowdown in productivity growth and increasing revealed difficulties in some world markets are real …, and the weakness of innovation may be a reason. The paper then quantifies some of the links between innovation …
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stakeholders and, at the same time, successful innovation strategies. However, stakeholder engagement and innovation tend to be … harnessed for sustainable innovation. Given the scant experience of companies linking stakeholder dialogue and sustainable … innovation, we decided to adopt an original and innovative research method based on gathering a group of managers from different …
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process of organisational innovation within the context of sustainable development. Given the early stage of empirical … stakeholder knowledge integration - for generating innovations in accordance with stakeholder needs. Whereas stakeholder dialogue …, stakeholder knowledge integration relies on non-hierarchical structures, flexibility and openness to change. The paper sheds some …
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In this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches...
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Management control systems can hinder innovation. However, recent theoretical and empirical work indicates that these …
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