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Phylogenetic Footprints in Organizational Behavior
Witt, Ulrich; Schwesinger, Georg - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
An evolutionary tool kit is applied in this paper to explain how innate social behavior traits evolved in early human groups. These traits were adapted to the particular production requirements of the group in human phylogeny. They shaped the group members' attitudes towards contributing to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010894141
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Long-term Tendencies in Technological Creativity - A Preference-based Approach
Cordes, C. - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2003
motivational underpinnings of human technological creativity that is able to explain some long-term developments in human labor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765299
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Empirical Analysis of the Assessment of Innovation Effects in U.S. Merger Cases
Kerber, Wolfgang; Kern, Benjamin; Dewenter, Ralf - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
and 2008 were analyzed in regard to the question to what extent and how the agencies assessed the innovation effects of … mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into … account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941614
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Is Academic Entrepreneurship Good or Bad for Science? Empirical Evidence from the Max Planck Society
Buenstorf, Guido - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2006
Based on new data, this paper studies invention disclosure, licensing, and firm formation activities of Max Planck Institute directors over the time period 1985-2004, and analyzes their effects on scientists' publication and citation records. The results are consistent with prior findings that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824128
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The Regional Dimension of Knowledge Transfers - A Behavioral Approach
Broekel, Tom; Binder, Martin - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2006
Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765352
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Distance to Frontier and Appropriate Business Strategy
Coad, Alexander - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008
This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588067
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Technological innovation and economic performance in the United Kingdom
Nickell, S. J.; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745223
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How does innovation affect worker well-being?
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Barth, Erling - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …
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Does foreign environmental policy influence domestic innovation? Evidence from the wind industry
Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745607
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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms
Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745829