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Commercializing Knowledge : University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology
Zucker, Lynne G. - 2001
Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New codes and formulae describing discoveries develop slowly - with little incentive if value is low and many competing opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally...
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The Impact of Emerging Market Competition on Innovation and Business Strategy
Kueng, Lorenz - 2016
more differentiated firms that survive the increase in competition have better performance ex-post, but are ex-ante more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455840
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Government Guarantees and Bank Vulnerability during a Crisis : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Acharya, Viral V. - 2019
We analyze the performance of Indian banks during 2007-09 relative to their vulnerability to a crisis measured using … pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … loan advances but with poorer ex-post performance of loans. Our evidence suggests that access to stronger government …
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance : Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States
Chari, Anusha - 2009
-acquisition performance of publicly traded U.S. firms that have been acquired by firms from emerging markets over the period 1980-2007. Our …
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 emerging market economies, we estimate the effects of foreign competition, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international...
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Workplace Knowledge Flows
Sandvik, Jason - 2020
What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479184
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The Gravity of Knowledge
Keller, Wolfgang - 2009
How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463140
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Minerva Unbound : Knowledge Stocks, Knowledge Flows and New Knowledge Production
Zucker, Lynne G. - 2006
The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and patents in the open-access digital library NanoBank, is shown to be positively affected both by the size of existing regional stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields,...
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Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants : The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research
Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2006
While the cumulative nature of knowledge is recognized as central to economic growth, the microeconomic foundations of cumulativeness are less understood. This paper investigates the impact of a research-enhancing institution on cumulativeness, highlighting two effects. First, a selection effect...
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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property : Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014
Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...
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