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Wikipedia: the value of open content production
Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Without the 'spillover effects' of open content production, the growth in Wikipedia editing activity between 2002 and 2010 would have been halved. That is the central finding of research by Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler, which analyses editing data by Wikipedia users to show how content...
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In brief: Management in America
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
There are strong links between the performance of US manufacturing plants and the quality of their systems of monitoring, targets and incentives, according to research by Professor Nicholas Bloom and colleagues. Their analysis of data on more than 30,000 establishments, gathered in the first...
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Impact of external knowledge acquisition strategies on innovation – A comparative study based on Dutch and Swiss panel data
Arvanitis, Spyros; Wörter, Martin; Mohnen, Pierre; … - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2013
There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, ‘buy’ and ‘cooperate’, on firm’s product innovation performance … while both ‘buy’ and ‘cooperate’ have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604534
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Impact of external knowledge acquisition strategies on innovation – A comparative study based on Dutch and Swiss panel data
Arvanitis, Spyros; Wörter, Martin; Mohnen, Pierre; … - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2013
There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, ‘buy’ and ‘cooperate’, on firm’s product innovation performance … while both ‘buy’ and ‘cooperate’ have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604789
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In brief - New technology: who wins, who loses?
Reenen, John Van; Bloom, Nicholas; Garicano, Luis; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Technology has transformed the once powerful office of ambassador into a glorified sales position, while nurses, teaching assistants and medical technicians all benefit from the ICT revolution. According to an empirical study by Professor John Van Reenen and colleagues, these contrasting...
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