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-ups from knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms with persistent R&D investments have a significantly increased … start in the same sector, indicating the importance of inherited knowledge. These findings suggest that R&D intensive firms …
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Prior research argues that USPTO first-action allowance rates increase with examiner seniority and experience, suggesting lower patent quality. However, we show that the increased use of examiner's amendments account for this prior empirical finding. Further, the mechanism reduces patent...
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integration of labour and employment in the area of innovation studies. …
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Although age is not supposed to be a criterion for the award of the Nobel Prize, it is commonly believed that it does play a role. Indeed, econometric evidence in this paper also suggests such a role. However, the paper finds that, if there is a preference for older Nobel candidates, this is...
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We explore how a firm’s knowledge structure characteristics and market identity—as reflected in its position in the … industry value chain and market status—influence knowledge-based alliance (KBA) formation. We propose that a firm’s propensity … to form KBAs is affected by the congruence (or misalignment) between its knowledge structure characteristics (i …
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This article presents a novel spatio-temporal framework for studying knowledge creation. To achieve this, we analyzed … the recent literature on space, time and knowledge and conducted an empirical study. The intensive case was about four … bring out different aspects of knowledge. Knowledge processes of progressing knowledge (time-space), creating distinguished …
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The non-rivalness of scientific knowledge has traditionally underpinned its status as a public good. In contrast we …
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The aims of this article are first to scrutinize the effects of cultural divergence within knowledge networks on … innovation and second to explore how these relations change during the process. Using qualitative case-study data from innovation … biographies in legal services and biotechnology research and development services the paper develops a phase model of innovation …
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. New evidence is provided, based on a comprehensive, large-scale survey of technology-based firms located in Portugal. The …’ economy like Portugal (lagging behind in terms of human capital stock, and seeming to have lost part of its attractiveness as …
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of innovation in which developers of technologies, service suppliers and customers contribute to the process of …
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