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Habakkuk revisited: a history friendly model of American and British technology in the nineteenth century
Fontana, Roberto; Guerzoni, Marco; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2008
-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266665
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Habakkuk revisited: A history friendly model of "American and British technology in the nineteenth century"
Fontana, Roberto; Guerzoni, Marco; Nuvolari, Alessandro - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090507
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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success: an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266686
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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem
Schwarz, Michael; Takhteyev, Yuri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012917
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Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?
bloom, nicholas; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718073
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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success - an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 ("Mannheim Innovation Panel"), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980453
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Innovation and lock-in
Cantner, Uwe; Vannuccini, Simone - 2016
literature. We discuss if lock-ins are really inescapable, especially when innovation is concerned. Also, we address the question …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580459
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The impact of market size and users' sophistication on innovation: the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle
Guerzoni, Marco - 2007
on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263802
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The impact of market size and users' sophistication on innovation: the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle
Guerzoni, Marco - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090572
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Innovation networks of high tech SMES: creation of knowledge but no creation of value
Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - 2007
This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263806