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Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.

Lokshin, Boris; Gils, Anita van; Bauer, Eva - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...

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The Productivity Effects of Internal and External R&D: Evidence From a Dynamic Panel Data Model

Lokshin, Boris; Belderbos, René; Carree, Martin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

We examine the impact of internal and external R&D on labor productivity in a 6-year panel of Dutch manufacturing firms. We apply a dynamic linear panel data model that allows for decreasing or increasing returns to scale in internal and external R&D and for economies of scope. We find...

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Determinants of alliance portfolio complexity and its effect on innovative performance of companies

Duysters, Geert; Lokshin, Boris - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

Alliance formation is often described as a mechanism used by firms to increase voluntary knowledge transfers. Access to external knowledge has been increasingly recognized as a main source of a firm's innovativeness. In this paper we examine decisions to form alliance portfolios of foreign and...

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The bumpy road of technology partnerships: Understanding causes and consequences of partnership mal-functioning

Lokshin, Boris; Hagedoorn, John; Letterie, Wilko - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

to undesired outcomes such as 'partnership mal-functioning' and 'instability' to the degree to which innovation … external activities (in terms of different types of partners) perform best. Moreover, a persistent product oriented innovation …

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Impact of external knowledge acquisition strategies on innovation - A comparative study based on Dutch and Swiss panel data

Arvanitis, Spyros; Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, 'buy' and 'cooperate', on firm's product innovation performance … while both 'buy' and 'cooperate' have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …

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