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The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. We look at innovative firms in the period from 2000 to 2002 taken from the Mannheim Innovation Panel and estimate the … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …
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This study examines how inventors’ breadth and depth of expertise influence innovation in 3M, a company renowned for … sustained innovation for over a century. While prior research tends to examine a single indicator – the technical success … commercially successful products. Our study extends prior research on innovation in two ways. We provide a comprehensive view of …
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External innovation increases the profits of the median firm, but also increases dispersion and the kurtosis of the … evidence that the rewards from innovation are positively skewed, we find no effect of innovation strategies upon the skewness …
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innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now, in … most industries and for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught … with cost and risk. Nonetheless, standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by the …
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The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: knowledge … Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive … advantage. In recent years, however, R&D and innovation growth in Ireland has been markedly stronger than that in Switzerland …
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Open labour markets are often seen as a precondition for innovation, particularly for new industries. However, this … characterised by incremental and complex innovation. Based on these considerations, we ask how mobility affects innovation in the … video games industry in the US and Japan. We find that inter-firm mobility is beneficial for innovation in the US, but has …
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market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while input from customers and research … institutions enhance original innovation. …
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This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. When examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies, three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...
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Entrepreneurship involves innovation and uncertainty. We outline a theory of entrepreneurship, which highlights the … importance of social networks in promoting innovation and reducing uncertainty. Our findings suggest that this “social” aspect of …
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