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of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples … drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach …
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This paper examines empirically whether firms located in strong industrial clusters are more innovative than firms located outside these regions. The study performs a firm-level analysis for two countries: Italy and the United Kingdom. European patent data for the period 1990-98 are used as...
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Taking in hand the two sides (i.e. cognitive and risk-bearing) of authority in design and production in complex tasks, this paper aims to give a first look at shifts in the locus of authority in the aviation electronics—or avionics—industry. Relying on patent and joint ventures data, we...
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The impact of technological change upon gross investment has been relatively ignored. Building upon the foundations of the analysis of technological diffusion, an empirical model of gross investment is constructed that takes due account of technological change. This model is then tested upon a...
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This article proposes three ideal business models to analyze innovation in knowledge-intensive goods and services. The … innovation, e.g. creation of novelty and of economic value. Defining the models this way leads to a discussion of the advantages … dynamics in knowledge-intensive sectors. …
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have the development of the Systems of Innovation Approach as a common objective. This multidisciplinary approach proposes … conceptual problems shedding new light on the evolutionary theory. This convergence between the Systems of Innovation Approach … and evolutionary concepts is organized around a complex conception of the innovation process. In this context, innovation …
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The aim of the article is to relate the formation of influence networks to the coexistence of technologies in the long run. In the spirit of Plouraboue et al. (1998), we postulate that potential adopters of a technology are situated in a social network. In our model, initial relations are partly...
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This paper presents characteristics of firms that employ advanced manufacturing technology (AMT), explores the pattern of adoption of such technology, and traces the effects of adoption on the evolution of employment and productivity. The study uses linked firm-level data on production, factor...
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Patterned innovation dynamics - investment-mix shifts and inter-organizational alliances -are examined for their roles … telecom equipment suppliers. Comparative analyses suggest that such innovation investment strategies have been of less benefit … to telecom firms than to producers in nearly any other major manufacturing sector. Trends in organizational innovation in …
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This paper reviews recent empirical studies of location and innovation. The objective is to highlight the questions … separate strains in thc empirical spillover literature: innovation production functions; the linkages between patent citations …. defined as paper trails: the rnobility of skilled labor based on the notion that knowledge spillovers are transmitted through …
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