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This study investigates the origins of disruptive innovation. According to the canonical model, disruptive innovations … do not originate from existing customers - in contrast with what the user innovation literature would predict. We … compiled a unique historical and content-analytic dataset based on 62 cases identified from the disruptive innovation …
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an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …
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We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
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outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as predicted …
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innovation as having a ?high? or ?very high? environmental effect. Our findings also show that exporters are 17.5 percent more … likely, all things equal, to report that their firm's innovation cuts the cost of energy/ materials. Our results agree with …
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This paper proposes and estimates a two-step methodology to measure international managerial skill and calculate its impact on firm performance, using a sample of the biggest private Colombian exporting firms. The first step quantifies the manager's organizational capital contribution to improve...
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We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …
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different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also … innovation sales and to create new knowledge qualified for patenting. In addition to own R&D activities, they rely on sourcing … knowledge from different sets of sources to support them to carry out the last three types of innovation outcomes. …
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process innovation rates. …
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This paper studies the impact of research and development (R&D) and innovation on employment growth, focusing on small … and medium-sized firms. Employment effects of R&D and innovation are unclear a priori as process innovation may be labor … both R&D and innovation increased employment growth, suggesting that innovation was either capital-saving or labor had …
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