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Open source innovation : characteristics and applicability outside the software industry

Raasch, Christina; Herstatt, Cornelius; Abdelkafi, Nizar - 2008

Motivation of this paper is to discuss that the open source model of innovation does not only seem practical in the … software industry, but also in various other industrial contexts. We develop the concept of Open Source Innovation (OSI) as a … the literature, we conclude that it is an innovation model in its own right, deserving more attention and research. We …

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Enabling and sustaining collaborative innovation

Blecker, Thorsten; Abdelkafi, Nizar; Raasch, Christina - 2008

the Open Source Innovation (OSI) model. OSI exhibits main differences to other related models and concepts such as the … private-collective model, commons-based peer production, R&D networks and is therefore an innovation model in its own right …

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Innovation modes in the Swiss service sector : a cluster analysis based on firm-level data

Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The aim of this paper is, firstly, to contribute to the understanding of innovation patterns in services. To this end …, firms which are similar in terms of a large set of innovation indicators were grouped into clusters. For the Swiss case, it … was possible to identify five clusters which exhibit clearly different configurations of a large number of innovation …

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Inter and intra firm diffusion of ICT in the United Kingdom (UK) and Switzerland (CH) : an internationally comparative study based on firm-level data

Battisti, Giuliana; Hollenstein, Heinz; Stoneman, Paul; … - 2005

This paper attempts to at least partially redress a paucity of current literature on the joint analysis of inter and intra firm diffusion of innovations within as well as across countries. In particular, by using two datasets derived from independent countryspecific surveys, it undertakes an...

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Inter- and intra-firm diffusion of technology: the example of e-commerce : an analysis based on Swiss firm-level data

Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor); … - 2007

The paper aims at a joint analysis of inter-firm and intra-firm diffusion of technology, taking as an example E-selling and E-purchasing. The analysis is based on an encompassing model of diffusion, drawn from the literature, which is extended by considering technology-specific obstacles and...

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Strategies pursued by Swiss firms in investing in R&D at foreign locations an empirical analysis based on firm-level data

Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor) - 2006

The aim of this paper is twofold: Firstly, we try to identify and characterise different types of strategies firms pursue in performing foreign R&D. Secondly, it is analysed whether the types of R&D strategies we identified in the first part differ in terms of their impact on firm productivity....

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The impact of ICT usage, workplace organisation and human capital on the provision of apprenticeship training. a firm-level analysis based on Swiss panel data

Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor); Stucki, Tobias (contributor) - 2008

Firstly, we investigated the determinants of a) the propensity of Swiss firms to provide apprenticeship training, and b) the intensity of training (measured by the employment share of apprentices). We primarily were interested in the relevance as explanatory factors of the three constituent...

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Adoption and diffusion of digital technologies : a firm-level analysis

Hollenstein, Heinz - 2022

The study provides evidence with respect to some topics of inter- and intra-firm diffusion of digital technology so far neglected in research. The analysis is based on a slightly extended version of the encompassing model of Battisti et al. (2009). We use a unique dataset that provides for the...

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