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Do world-leading researchers from developing countries contribute to upgrading locally, or do they disengage from the local context? The paper investigates the scientific collaborations of university-based science and technology researchers in the database of the South African National Research...
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relationship with propensity. The analysis is based on innovation survey data on manufacturing firms from Jiangsu province of China …
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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 rate of innovation for companies with small patent and alliance portfolios. However, when the patent portfolio and … technologies have higher levels of innovation performance in subsequent years than companies that solely invest in incremental …
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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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within the context of technological innovation. We differentiate among a firm's direct ties, indirect ties and degree of …
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has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve … - remains the same. Hence a focus on endogenous innovation policy is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. …
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This paper analyzes empirically the channels through which university research affects industry innovation. We examine … innovation systems. We find that creation of a new university department increased regional innovation activity 3-4 years later …
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firms using data derived from the 3rd Community Innovation Survey. When firms are asked whether or not they have introduced … other institutions. If an innovative firm has no formal collaboration arrangements and the innovation has not been done … mainly by the firm, then diffusion of informal knowledge is considered to be the main driver of the innovation. The idea is …
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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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