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Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.

Lokshin, Boris; Gils, Anita van; Bauer, Eva - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 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 challenge of measuring innovation in emerging economies' firms: A proposal of a new set of indicators on innovation

Marins, Luciana - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

The traditional indicators on innovation rely on the linear assumption that research leads to development, centring on … the measurement of inputs and outputs. Based on the traditional innovation indicators, recent studies focused on the … industrial innovation process at Latin America state that nowadays Latin American firms display a passive role at world …

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Designing plans for organizational development, lessons from three large-scale SME-initiatives

Lommelen, Tinne; Hertog, Friso den; Beck, Lien; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

the context of government-sponsored social science programs and aimed at improving innovation in SMEs. As the paper shows …

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Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe

Zhang, Ying; Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

Since end of the 1990s, the world has been witnessing a phenomenon of internationalisation of Chinese companies. This internationalisation is often understood through FDI inflows, whereby multinational companies establish their presence in a form of subsidiaries overseas. However, lately many...

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The impact of innovation activities on productivity and firm growth: evidence from Brazil

Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

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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 and … - 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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How do social capital and government support affect innovation and growth? Evidence from the EU regional support programmes

Akcomak, Semih; Ter Weel, Bas - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

innovation output and economic growth for regions of the European Union from 1990-2002. Using several measures of social capital … and innovation, and the European Union’s Objective 1, 2 and 5b figures for EU regional support, the estimates suggest that …

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What drives productivity in Tanzanian manufacturing firms: technology or institutions?

Goedhuys, Micheline; Janz, Norbert; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing … fail to produce any significant impact, and only foreign ownership, ISO certification and high education of the management …

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Drivers and Barriers of Innovation Dynamics in Healthcare - Towards a framework for analyzing innovation in Tuberculosis control in India

Engel, Nora - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

changing and with it challenges and opportunities to control the disease. Innovation in a variety of areas such as improved … to respond to the changing public health challenge. This paper reviews theoretical approaches to innovation of direct … relevance to the case and examines what theoretical framework is useful to look at the problem of innovation in public health in …

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The Voyage of the Beagle in Innovation Systems Land.Explorations on Sectors, Innovation, Heterogeneity and Selection

Srholec, Martin; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …

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