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Empirical Tests of Optimal Cognitive Distance

Wuyts, S.H.K.; Colombo, M.; Dutta, S.; Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of optimal cognitive distance , proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings.Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...

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Optimal Cognitive Distance and Absorptive Capacity

Duysters, Geert; Nooteboom, B.; Vanhaverbeke, W.P.M.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology …-based alliances.The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped effect of cognitive distance on innovation performance …

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Network Embeddedness and the Exploration of Novel Technologies : Technological Distance, Betweenness Centrality and Density

Duysters, Geert; Nooteboom, B.; Gilsing, V.A.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

In this paper we analyze the innovative performance of alliance networks as a function of the technological distance between partners, a firm's network position (centrality) and total network density.We study how these three elements of an alliance network, apart and in combination, affect the...

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Density and Strength of Ties in Innovation Networks : An Analysis of Multi-Media and Biotechnology

Gilsing, V.A.; Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

and strength of ties in innovation networks.We study both exploration and exploitation networks in the Dutch multimedia …

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Beyond Penrose : A Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … view of cognition is a constructivist one, according to which people with different experience view the world differently … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …

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Competition and Innovation : Pushing Productivity Up or Down?

Brouwer, Erik; van der Wiel, H.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between competition, innovation and productivity for the Netherlands. We use … innovation data from Community Innovation Survey with accounting data to link innovative activities with performance at the … through more innovation. Nonetheless, there exists an inverted U- curve between competition and innovation for the Netherlands …

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Anti-takeover Provisions as a Source of Innovation and Value Creation

Humphery-Jenner, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

-creating takeovers and increase innovation and do not induce agency con icts of managerial entrenchment. This implies that for innovative …

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Innovation, growth and welfare-improving cycles

Francois, P.; Shi, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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Cognitive Distance in and Between COP’s and Firms : Where do Exploitation and Exploration take Place, and How are they Connected?

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper contributes to the analysis of where and how both exploitation and exploration may take place inside and between communities and organizations. It connects with the discussion of differences between communities of practice and epistemic communities. The analysis allows for differences...

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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …

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