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Environmentally-oriented innovative strategies and firm performances in services: Micro-evidence from Italy
Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007
with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270950
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Knowledge Virtualization and Local Connectedness among Smart High-tech Companies
van Geenhuizen, Marina; Nijkamp, Peter - 2011
Smart high-tech companies are characterized by knowledge intensity and open innovation. Even when these companies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326469
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The Transaction Costs Perspective on Standards as a Source of Trade and Productivity Growth
den Butter, Frank A.G.; Groot, Stefan P.T.; Lazrak, Faroek - 2007
This paper discusses the design, implementation and use of standards from the perspective of transaction costs economics. A proper design and implementation of standards may lead to a considerable reduction of transaction costs, which enhances trade and, consequently, economic welfare. A major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325142
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Matching and Winning? The Impact of Upper and Middle Managers on Team Performance
Peeters, Thomas; Salaga, Steven; Juravich, Matthew - 2015
In this paper we investigate the impact of upper and middle level managers on firm performance by simultaneously estimating manager and match qualities for management pairings in Major League Baseball (MLB). We document the economic significance of managers at both organizational levels and...
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A Real Options Perspective on R&D Portfolio Diversification
van Bekkum, Sjoerd; Pennings, Enrico; Smit, Han - 2007
This paper shows that the presence of conditional staging in R&D (Research & Development) has a critical impact on portfolio risk, and changes diversification arguments when a portfolio is constructed. When R&D projects exhibit option-like characteristics, correlation between projects plays a...
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Strategic Intellectual Property Rights Policy and North-South Technology Transfer
Naghavi, Alireza - 2005
developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade … environment, the South sets its IPR policy strategically to manipulate multinationals' decisions on innovation and location. Firms … stimulates innovation by pushing multinationals to deter entry in high-technology sectors. …
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High Performance in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands
Kourtit, Karima; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328344
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Pharmaceutical Research Strategies
Phlippen, Sandra; Vermeersch, An - 2008
This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of successful research projects. We provide clear evidence that externally sourced projects and projects involving biotechnologies perform better than internal projects and chemical...
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Parallel imports and innovation in an emerging economy
Mantovani, Andrea; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010
This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their …. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs. Increasing … market, hence increases its innovation efforts. A tariff policy accompanied by opening borders to PI only increases welfare …
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Unbundling technology adoption and tfp at the firm level: Do intangibles matter?
Battisti, Michele; Belloc, Filippo; Del Gatto, Massimo - 2012
We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity conflating the two effects. To this aim, we estimate...
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