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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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Exploration and Exploitation in Technology-based Alliance Networks

Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Beerkens, Bonnie; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

within the context of technological innovation. We differentiate among a firm's direct ties, indirect ties and degree of …

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Technological capability building through networking strategies within high-tech industries

Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Beerkens, Bonnie - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

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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Towards the societal system of innovation: The case of metropolitan areas in Europe

Turkeli S.; Wintjes R.J.M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

Innovation serves many purposes. In this paper we study new varieties of innovation and innovation policy which address … terms of multiplicities of innovation, governance and societal challenges. They serve as living labs and lead-markets for … solutions to societal challenges. The identified and analysed cases of social innovation initiatives in these metropolitan areas …

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