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We study innovation and R&D investments made from 2008 to 2010 by UK companies that were the targets of leveraged … buyout (LBO) in previous years. We find that overall, LBO companies do not exhibit lower innovation and R&D investments than … non-LBO companies during the crisis, with other things being equal. However, innovation and R&D investments decline …
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We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...
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article is dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. In particular, it … Probit models) and non-parametrical regression trees on the results of the first community innovation survey in Tunisia. We … find that the innovation behavior of the three categories of firms is strongly contrasted. Our results show firms that …
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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Survey design and summary statistics -- Chapter 3. Innovation output -- Chapter 4 … how R&D management practices are associated with the success and the nature (explorative or exploitive) of innovation …, using a unique survey of firms in Japan. While there is wide agreement that innovation is a key determinant for growth of …
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history of business operations from these four countries. Firstly, the book examines innovation practices of long … organizational and technological factors for long-term innovation success. Further, the book provides recommendations based on …
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Aufgabenbeschreibung -- Die offiziellen Erhebungen zu Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation -- Publikationen -- Zitate …Diese Open-Access-Publikation beschreibt unterschiedliche Ansätze zur Messung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation …
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-1999, suggesting that academic research was becoming more important to innovation in the 1990s. However, the volume of academic …
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We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not been described in the literature: the...
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers. Using detailed operational, financial, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century, we find a more nuanced picture than the...
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