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Using a unique panel data of Dutch innovation and financial variables we empirically investigate how financing and … innovation vary across firm characteristics. The study also tries to gauge the extent of market failure due to the presence of …, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics such as age, size, and existing leverage …
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In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using … statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms …
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Internationalisation of Russian companies has become a distinctive phenomenon and has drawn attention of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers alike. Newly emerged Russian companies have extended their presence from the nearest former Soviet republics to the advanced markets of Western...
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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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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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within the context of technological innovation. We differentiate among a firm's direct ties, indirect ties and degree of …
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governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …
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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....
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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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