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Integration and Reorganisation of Industrial R&D: Deficits and Perspectives of Empirical Research
Grimpe, Christoph - 2005
The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and widespread integration project to ensure that a company?s innovative capabilities are carried forward into the future. Previous research has shown, however, that the combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297500
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Industrial research versus development investment: the implications of financial constraints
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2009
Previous literature provided evidence on financing constraints for investment in R&D activities due to capital market imperfections and special features of R&D investments. Moreover, it has been shown that a shift in capital structure towards more debt, results in a reduction of R&D investments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299174
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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372481
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Old Moats for New Models : Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI
Azoulay, Pierre; Krieger, Joshua L.; Nagaraj, Abhishek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping … stifling broad sectoral innovation. We conclude with speculations regarding how this oligopolistic future might be averted …
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Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Bassi, Vittorio; Nyshadham, Anant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm trains in problem-solving...
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297711
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098384
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Mapping the Knowledge Space : Exploiting Unassisted Machine Learning Tools
Teodoridis, Florenta; Lu, Jino; Furman, Jeffrey L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation … several contexts for research in innovation. We benchmark and demonstrate the benefits of this approach in the context of 44 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435165
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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process
Jaffe, Adam B. - 1999
relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471503
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Opening up Military Innovation : Causal Effects of ‘Bottom-Up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510578