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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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been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …
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This chapter attempts a step forward in seeking a richer understanding of the dynamics of strategic alliances, specifically when viewed from a cross-cultural perspective. We report selected materials from a study designed to build a theory of culture and learning in organizations based on...
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This paper presents a simple boundedly rational model of a firm and consumer behaviour. We formulate an entry game, where every firm decides on investing in R&D for inventing a new product that will appeal to certain group of consumers. The success depends on the amount of funds available for...
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innovation to observe the influence of firm size and of market concentration on innovative activities, and to interrogate the … differences in influences of innovation determinants in different size classes and competition statuses. Our analysis reveals that … employment increases the likelihood of R&D and product innovation, and its influence on R&D expenditures is positive but at less …
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Growth theory has mainly focused on process innovation, either through an increase in quality of the product or a … reduction on the cost. The main contributions in growth theory that includes product innovation has been done in the Dixit and …. Goods are different in their habit formation parameters. Innovation is not the normal reduction in costs but an increase in …
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This paper sets out to explore the nature of new organisational and institutional vehicles for managing innovation in …-the-radar innovation. For each of these classes of innovation management vehicles this review has mapped the diversity of emerging examples … these new and as yet poorly-understood modes of innovation that have the greatest potential to effect change, although …
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Evolution of consumers' preferences has been recognized by many scholars as being key to understanding technological change. However, mainstream economics cannot account for the seemingly irrational behavior of consumers based on changes in taste – consumer theory lacks exibility and accuracy...
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about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …
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Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …
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