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Knowledge Spillovers and Knowledge Intensive Business Services: An Empirical Study

Fernandes, Cristina; Ferreira, João - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Knowledge is increasingly perceived as a central factor for company competitiveness. With the transfer of knowledge one of the core functions of knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) companies, the objective of our research incorporates analysis on how the transfer of knowledge takes place...

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KIBS Innovation Management Capability in Rural Portuguese Regions: Empirical Evidence

Fernandes, Cristina; Ferreira, João; Marques, Carla - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This article aims to evaluate the innovation management capacities of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and … KIBS, we applied a questionnaire with results revealing different explanatory variables for KIBS innovation capacities … KIBS innovation capacities. …

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Configuration of Logistics Activities across Life-Cycle of the Firms and Performance: Proposal of a Conceptual Model

Ferreira, João; Leitão, João; Garrido Azevedo, Susana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In the last years, broad changes have contributed to the enhancement of the importance of the logistics as a source of competitive advantage, not just for increasing the satisfaction of the clients, but also for improving the performance of the firms. Nevertheless, the response functions of the...

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Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees’ Inventions...

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Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...

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The Role of Logistics' Information and Communication Technologies in Promoting Competitive Advantages of the Firm

Garrido Azevedo, Susana; Ferreira, João; Leitão, João - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

determinant factors: individual, organizational, technological or innovation, and environmental. The interaction established …

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Determinants of Banking Competitiveness at the Level of Resources, Skills and Abilities: An Empirical Study

Ferreira, João; Marques, Carla; Azevedo, Carlos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Considering the deep transformations that the banking sector has been experiencing in recent years at a competitive level, this research focuses on identifying the determinants of competitiveness and the variables affecting the same, regarding the level of resources, capabilities and...

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Drivers to firm innovation and their effects on performance: An international comparison

Fernandes, Cristina; Ferreira, João; Raposo, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This research aims to analyse the drivers to company innovation and their effects on the financial performance. This … the methodology deployed to analyse the importance of innovation types (differences between Portugal and Spain). To … analyse the extent to which the innovation capacity variables influence financial performance (turnover), we made recourse to …

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Is the Triple Helix Model Suitable to Approach Low Density Regions Competitiveness? Insights from a Portuguese Case Study

Ferreira, João; Marques, Carla; Couto, Alcino; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

approach and organise public policy and actors’ strategy oriented to shape and nurture emerging and fragile innovation systems … innovation support organisations and firms, the emerging interface institutions, institutional framework, as well as policy …

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What are the Channels for Technology Sourcing? Panel Data Evidence from German Companies

Harhoff, Dietmar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known … about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different …

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