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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study
Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
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Innovation, productivity, and training
Dostie, Benoît - 2014
stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …
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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
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Public funding and corporate innovation
Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017
, particularly of university scientists, is positively related to innovation; (vi) there are many university spin-offs but these are …
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New technology in the region : agglomeration and absorptive capacity effects on laser technology research in West Germany, 1960 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Echalar, Luis F. Medrano - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 24 (2015) 1/2, pp. 65-94
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Patents as quality signals? : the implications for financing constraints on R&D
Hottenrott, Hanna; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 25 (2016) 3/4, pp. 197-217
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How enterprise strategies are related to innovation and productivity change : an empirical study of Japanese manufacturing firms
Fujii, Hidemichi; Edamura, Kazuma; Sumikura, Koichi; … - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 24 (2015) 3/4, pp. 248-262
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Exploration or exploitation of knowledge from universities : does it make a difference?
Arvanitis, Spyridon; Wörter, Martin - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 24 (2015) 5/6, pp. 596-623
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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …
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