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A new view of general purpose technologies
Cantner, Uwe; Vannuccini, Simone - 2012
The economic literature started to recognize the heterogeneity characterizing the nature of different technologies, introducing the concept of General Purpose Technologies. In this paper, we offer a new view of General Purpose Technologies, building on the historical as well as on the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291799
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A New View of General Purpose Technologies
Cantner, Uwe; Vannuccini, Simone - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The economic literature started to recognize the heterogeneity characterizing the nature of different technologies, introducing the concept of General Purpose Technologies. In this paper, we offer a "new view of General Purpose Technologies", building on the historical as well as on the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010578212
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Innovation and lock-in
Cantner, Uwe; Vannuccini, Simone - 2016
This study focuses on a well-known but yet elusive concept: (technological) lock-in. We summarize what is known about the nature of lock-in and offer a critical view on history- dependent processes based on recent contributions to the literature. We discuss if lock-ins are really inescapable,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580459
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Knowledge recombination along the technology life cycle
Kalthaus, Martin - 2016
The emergence and evolution of a technology is intimately related to it's knowledge base. A knowledge base shows … certain dynamics and evolves over time. Knowledge accumulation, especially the in-flow of knowledge from sources external to … an industry, is crucial for the technology's knowledge base evolution in terms of initiating, redirecting and refreshing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663359
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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
The aim of this paper is an investigation on the role of demand in industrial dynamics. Despite the decades-long debate on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where demand is conceived as a peculiar blend of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263802
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Entrepreneurship and innovation policy
Stam, Erik - 2008
What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an overview of theory and empirical research on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263861
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The economics of net neutrality revisited
Pehnelt, Gernot - 2008
In this paper, we analyze the problem of congestion and quality loss of data transmission through the Internet from an economic perspective. We show that due to the congestion problem, quality sensitive services are likely to be crowded out by high volume but less quality sensitive applications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266653
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Ready to leave the ivory tower? Academic scientists' appeal to work in the private sector
Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - 2009
In this study we investigate the factors that shape the attitudes of scientists toward starting their own business or working in a private sector firm. The analysis is based on data collected from scientists working in the German Max Planck Society, a research institution devoted to basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267108
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Technology transfer offices and university patenting: a review
von Ledebur, Sidonia - 2008
This policy paper on science-industry technology transfer has four emphases: the rationale of recent changes in German science policy, the contribution of diverse transfer channels to economic development as well as the role of IPR in that context, the differences in the institutional framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274510
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Entrepreneurial ecosystems: A dynamic lifecycle model
Cantner, Uwe; Cunningham, James; Lehmann, Erik; Menter, … - 2019
ecosystem, with a core focus on the internal commercialization of knowledge, i.e. intrapreneurial activities, and vice versa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389625