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A matter of life and death: Innovation and firm survival
Cefis, Elena; Marsili, Orietta - 2004
This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The … demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register … population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the Community Innovation Survey. Through estimation of a parametric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328425
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An emerging paradigm or just another trajectory? Understanding the nature of technological changes using engineering heuristics in the telecommunications switching industry
Martinelli, Arianna - 2011
The theoretical literature on technological changes distinguishes between paradigmatic changes and changes in trajectories. Recently several scholars have performed empirical studies on the way technological trajectories evolve in specific industries, often by predominantly looking at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328386
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Innovation and market dynamics: A two-mode network approach to user-producer relation
Cantner, Uwe; Guerzoni, Marco; Martinelli, Arianna - 2012
In this paper we propose a new mental representation of how markets, technology and their interaction concur in explaining the why of a certain innovation instead of another. We empirically test this theory in the telecommunication switches industry. We consider innovation as a new alignment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328399
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The revolution within: ICT and the shifting knowledge base of the world's largest companies
Mendonça, Sandro - 2005
diversification trend among the world's largest manufacturing firms during the 1980s and 1990s. The objective of the research is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328555
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Growth, structural change and technological capabilities: Latin America in a comparative perspective
Cimoli, Mario; Holland, Marcio; Porcile, Gabriel; … - 2006
Countries differ in terms of technological capabilities and complexity of production structures. According to that, countries may follow different development strategies: one based on extracting rents from abundant endowments, such as labor or natural resources, and the other focused on creating...
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Technological coherence and the adaptive resilience of regional economies
Rocchetta, Silvia; Mina, Andrea - 2018
though firms' net entry does not appear to contribute significantly towards resilience. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060646
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The innovation-employment nexus: A critical survey of theory and empirics
Calvino, Flavio; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2016
Understanding whether technical change is beneficial or detrimental for employment is at the center of the policy debate, especially in phases of economic recession. So far, the effects of innovation - in its manifold declinations and intrinsic complexity - on labour demand have proven to be not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789713
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Restructuring in France's innovation system: From the mission-oriented model to a systemic approach of innovation
Dosso, Mafini - 2014
The paper discusses the transitional phase of the French innovation system focusing on the activities that influence the development and diffusion of innovations. It shows that the current system combined persistent elements of the traditional mission-oriented model with new systemic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335907
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Inside the virtuous cycle between productivity, profitability, investment and corporate growth: An anatomy of China industrialization
Yu, Xiaodan; Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Lei, Jiasu - 2015
, and account for 15% - 20% of the variance in firms' growth rates. The direct relation between profitability and firm …
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Stimulating graduates' research-oriented careers: Does academic research matter?
Sylos Labini, Mauro; Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2009
This paper investigates whether the quality of higher education and, in particular, its research performance stimulate graduates' research-oriented careers. More specifically, exploiting a very rich data-set on university graduates and the higher education institutions they attended, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328355