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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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agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …
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one particular cross-border strategic alliance. First, we adopt a thick descriptive style of case narration to present the …
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The analysis of the impact of innovation on employment growth is an important topic for policy makers, because (un …)employment is an important social topic, and the effects of innovation on employment are often poorly understood. Despite the … with developed ones. This paper contributes to this scanty literature by investigating the employment effect of innovation …
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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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The excessive concentration of the innovation literature on product development, its drivers and effects, has almost … neglected an important strategy which develops and sustains a firm's competitive advantage: process development or innovation …. This is an examination of process innovation as more than a mere dependent variable for predicting innovators. It provides …
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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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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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