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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers

Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new-to-the-firm innovation. Our results using European … chances that knowledge will become new-to-the-market innovation. The findings highlight the importance of Schumpeterian …

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Exploring retailers' sensitivity to local sustainability policies

Quak, Quak, H.J.; de Koster, de Koster, M.B.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

Local governments in Western Europe increasingly use city time-access regulations to improve social sustainibility. These regulations significantly influence the distribution process of retail chain organizations. This paper studies the impact of governmental timewindow pressure on retailers’...

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Absorptive Capacity: Antecedents, Models and Outcomes

Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; van Wijk, van Wijk, R.A.J.L.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003

This chapter focuses on the gap between the speed of proliferation of theoretical and empirical contributions and the speed of accumulation of the acquired scientific knowledge regarding absorptive capacity. To contribute to narrowing this gap, we will in particular review the conceptual...

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The Bright Side and Dark Side of Embedded Ties In Business-to-Business Innovation

dellaert, benedict g.c.; Noordhoff, Noordhoff, C.S.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2011

While the number and importance of joint innovation projects between suppliers and their customers continue to rise …, the literature has yet to resolve a key question—do embedded ties with customers help or hurt supplier innovation? Drawing … innovation knowledge to influence supplier innovation. In a sample of 157 Dutch business-to-business innovation relationships, we …

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The Environmental Gains of Remanufacturing: Evidence from the Computer and Mobile Industry

Bloemhof-Ruwaard, Jacqueline Bloemhof; Quariguasi Frota … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

Remanufacturing has long been perceived as an environmentally-friendly initiative. The question of how remanufacturing moderates the relation between environmental impact and economic returns is still unanswered, however. In this paper, we focus our attention on the electronics industry. In...

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Sustainable Passenger Transportation: Dynamic Ride-Sharing

Agatz, Agatz, N.A.H.; Erera, Erera, A.; Savelsbergh, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Ride-share systems, which aim to bring together travelers with similar itineraries and time schedules, may provide significant societal and environmental benefits by reducing the number of cars used for personal travel and improving the utilization of available seat capacity. Effective and...

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The 2012 Power Trading Agent Competition

Ketter, Ketter, W.; Collins, Collins, J.; Reddy, Reddy, P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2012

This is the specification for the Power Trading Agent Competition for 2012 (Power TAC 2012). Power TAC is a competitive simulation that models a “liberalized” retail electrical energy market, where competing business entities or “brokers” offer energy services to customers through tariff...

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The 2013 Power Trading Agent Competition

Ketter, Ketter, W.; Collins, Collins, J.; Reddy, Reddy, P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2013

This is the specification for the Power Trading Agent Competition for 2013 (Power TAC 2013). Power TAC is a competitive simulation that models a “liberalized” retail electrical energy market, where competing business entities or “brokers” offer energy services to customers through tariff...

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Why New Business Development Projects Fail: Coping with the Differences of Technological versus Market Knowledge

Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Burgers, Burgers, J.H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project management characteristics, i.e. project autonomy...

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Knowledge sharing in an Emerging Network of Practice: The Role of a Knowledge Portal

Bloemhof-Ruwaard, Jacqueline Bloemhof; van Baalen, van … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

knowledge portal facilitates the diffusion of knowledge among rather loosely coupled and often disconnected innovation projects … product-oriented to a problemoriented innovation structure. The set up of a platform and knowledge portal around agro …

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