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Distance to Frontier and Appropriate Business Strategy

Coad, Alex - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

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Understanding absorptive capacities in an "innovation systems" context consequences for economic and employment growth

Narula, Rajneesh - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004

This paper seeks to broaden our understanding of the concept underlying absorptive capacity at the macro –level, paying particular attention to the growth and development perspectives. We provide definitions of absorptive and technological capacity, external technology flows, productivity...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169031

The Further the Better? Knowledge Intensive Service Firms' Collaboration on Innovation

Vinding, Anker Lund; Drejer, Ina - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

Three hypotheses in relation to knowledge intensive service firms’ collaboration in relation to development of new services are explored: i) firms with a high level of absorptive capacity are more likely to collaborate on innovation than firms with a relatively low level of absorptive...

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Technology Policy and Co-operative R&D the role of Relational Research Capacity

Cusmano, Lucia - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

Evolutionary theories of technological change and industrial dynamics give primary importance to interaction between heterogeneous agents, endowed with complementary assets and competencies. Accordingly, support to co-operative R&D is central to technology policy, as a mean for increasing system...

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Inventors and the Geographical Breadth of Knowledge Soillovers

Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

This paper studies the geographical breadth of knowledge spillovers. Previous research suggests that knowledge spillovers benefit from geographical proximity in technologically active and rich regions more than elsewhere. An alternative view explains the geographical breadth of knowledge...

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Manufacturing Agrarian Change - Agricultural production, inter-sectoral learning and technological capabilities

Andreoni, Antonio - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

The aim of this paper is to investigate how industrial development, manufacturing in particular, has been contributing to agrarian change. In order to address this issue, it analyzes the technical bases and structural specificities – i.e. time and scale constraints – of agricultural...

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An Empirical Model of Firm Behaviour A Dynamic Approach to Competence Accumulation and Strategic Behaviour

Præst, Mette - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

The aim of this paper is to develop and implement an empirical model of firm behaviour. The data applied are patent applications taken out by 16 multinationals within telecommunications. The first dimension of the model deals with the strategic behaviour of firms. Second dimension deals with the...

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What makes a gatekeeper? Insights from the Finnish nano-community

Nikulainen, Tuomo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

In the process of transferring scientific knowledge to industry the role of individual academics has received less attention than the other actors in this process. This paper aims to identify the characteristics of these key individuals, or gatekeepers, by analysing them within the context of...

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Tacit Knowledge, Organisational Learning and Innovation A Societal Perspective

Lam, Alice - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

Knowledge and competence are increasingly regarded as the most critical resources of firms and economies. Much recent attention has focused, in particular, on the importance of 'tacit knowledge' for sustaining firms’ competitiveness, and its role in technological innovation and organisational...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273157

Services Innovation and Economic Performance An analysis at the firm level

Lopes, Luísa Ferreira; Godinho, Manuel Mira - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

We present a model that links innovation effort to economic performance, along the lines of the Crépon et al (1998 … examines the relationship between innovation and performance for services sectors. This is relevant since much effort has been … performance. Instead of estimating a direct link between innovation and labor productivity, three specific relationships were put …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627345

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