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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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Germany has had an extremely low growth performance since 1995. The paper looks at the long-run reasons for this loss of economic dynamics besides German unification: These include leaving labor idle, a declining share of investment in GDP, a weaker innovative activity, an ineffective system for...
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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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This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance. …
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Should inputs such as bank finance affect innovation in BRICS vs. developed countries similarly? Arguably these … and Tobit to a sample of 22 countries, we show how innovation (measured patents, scientific publications and high …
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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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innovation process. A missing venture capital market can be ascribed to an inefficient allocation of resources, calling for a …
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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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