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

Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 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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Science, Technology and Development: Emerging concepts and visions

Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …

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Financial Constraint and R&D Investment: Evidence from CIS

Mohnen, Pierre; Tiwari, Amaresh; Palm, Franz; Schim van … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

Using direct information on financial constraints from questionnaires, rather than the commonly used balance sheet information, this paper presents evidence that, controlling for traditional factors as size, market share, cooperative arrangement, and expected profitability, financial constraints...

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Buying and Selling Research and Development Services, 1997 to 2002

Mohnen, Pierre; Rose, Antoine; Rosa, Julio - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

Research and development is a crucial activity in the innovation process. Not every firm is in a position to overcome …

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Do R&D tax incentives lead to higher wages for R&D workers? Evidence from the Netherlands

Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

This paper examines the impact of the Dutch R&D tax incentive scheme on the wages of R&D workers. We construct firm specific R&D tax credit rates that vary over time following variations in the Dutch R&D tax incentive program. Using instrumental variables we estimate a wage-sharing model with an...

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R&D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry

Huang, Can; Qu, Zhe; Zhang, Mingqian; Zhao, Yanyun - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

This paper studies the impact of the R&D offshoring of multinational enterprises on the firms in host emerging economies. We develop a two-stage non-cooperative game to analyze the strategic interaction between multinational and host country enterprises engaged in R&D investment. An empirical...

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Strategic motivations for Sino-Western alliances: a comparativeanalysis of Chinese and Western alliance formation drivers.

Saebi, Tina; Dong, Qinqin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

This paper compares the key drivers of Sino-foreign alliance formation from the perspective of both Chinese and Western alliance partners. Our results indicate that Chinese companies enter into alliances with Western companies mainly to get accesses to international markets and to develop their...

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The Innovativeness of Foreign Firms in China

Urem, Branka; Alcorta, Ludovico; An, Tongliang - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

relationship with propensity. The analysis is based on innovation survey data on manufacturing firms from Jiangsu province of China …

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FDI and Innovation as Drivers of Export Behaviour: Firm-level Evidence from East Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation and exporting in electronics firms in three late … trade and innovation and learning. Technology-based approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm …-level exporting behavior. The econometric results (using probit) confirm the importance of foreign ownership and innovation in …

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