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; Long Waves ; Business Cycles ; Dominant design ; Pervasiveness of technologies ; Neo-Schumpeterian economics …
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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 …
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sector work. -- Knowledge transfer ; science ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; commercialization …
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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,...
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This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
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Innovation studies use labels such as radical or disruptive to qualify innovation according to different concepts. Within the literature, these labels are frequently used interchangeably due to overlaps in their characteristics. These various definitions present challenges when the labels are...
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We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...
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ecosystem, with a core focus on the internal commercialization of knowledge, i.e. intrapreneurial activities, and vice versa …
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This paper documents the generation and the content of the Comprehensive Patent Database (CPDB) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (1949-1990), Version 1.1, which is freely available at GESIS https://doi.org/10.7802/2423. The database contains all patents granted in the GDR and published by...
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The transfer of knowledge and technology from academia to industry is usually understood as a process. While previous …' probability to recognize a transfer opportunity and different kinds of prior knowledge. Contrary to our expectation, scientific …
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