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We document the evolution of product innovation and features in the mobile telephone handset market. We distinguish … between two types of product innovation: vertical and horizontal innovation. Using data from 1990 - 2003, we find that some …
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This exploratory empirical study compares the determinants of innovation in manufacturing and services through … different innovation objectives or cooperating with different types of partners appears to have detrimental effects on service … innovation. We interpret the latter results through reference to service firms' R&D and alliance management capabilities …
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The phenomenon of physical R&D-manufacturing co-location is interesting, because researchers have made very different observations regarding its prevalence. In some populations co-location of the two functions seems to be the norm; in others, an exception. However, we still do not have an...
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three factors that may affect the adoption decision: product complexity, architectural innovation and competency scale. The …
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While both manufacturing and R&D location decisions have received considerable theoretical and empirical attention from economists and organization scientists, theories and evidence regarding the co-location of the two are scarce. The goal of this article is to lay the theoretical foundation for...
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This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...
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and innovation policies provides routines for exploiting various types learning sources”. While benchmarking is a flexible …Central concerns of research and innovation policies under uncertainty and systemic complexity are market and systemic … the effectiveness of research and innovation policies and, therefore, the performances of particular countries and the …
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Companies face an expanding set of choices about where to locate their innovation activity, both within their home … of innovation activity: almost by definition, multiple locations per firm imply some degree of decentralization. Using … firm-level data on innovation output and the location of research and development (R&D) activity, we shed new light on the …
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Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firms' innovation … fruitful for innovation. There are vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between the … small and large firms, and between the firms that are functioning in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in the …
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This descriptive paper analyses structural characteristics of Finnish university departments (FIDs) and benchmarks them against foreign university departments from Scandinavia, the UK and the US (FODs). In the first place the study aims to reveal information on differences in department size. In...
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