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The user dominated technology era: Dynamics of dispersed peer-innovation

Hyysalo, Sampsa; Usenyuk, Svetlana - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 3, pp. 560-576

Users invent new products and product categories, but the assumption has been that manufacturers will supplant users if their innovation is of value to many. The current paper examines Russian all terrain vehicles “karakats” to discuss a case of an era of extended user dominated technology...

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Which policy instruments to induce clean innovating?

Veugelers, Reinhilde - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 10, pp. 1770-1778

In view of the sizeable climate change challenge, we need a clean innovation machine operating at full speed. Beyond the supply of public clean R&D infrastructure and clean public procurement, the development and adoption of new clean technologies by the private sector needs to be assured to...

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The mobility of economists and the diffusion of policy ideas: The influence of economics on national policies

Kogut, Bruce; Macpherson, J. Muir - In: Research Policy 40 (2011) 10, pp. 1307-1320

innovations (privatization, central bank independence, and pension reform) and shows how the diffusion of these policies depended … creation and diffusion of economic policies as innovations that are subject to trial and error revision as well as to the …

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Do innovation measures actually measure innovation? Obliteration, symbolic adoption, and other finicky challenges in tracking innovation diffusion

Nelson, Andrew; Earle, Andrew; Howard-Grenville, Jennifer; … - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 6, pp. 927-940

Although innovation diffusion is a central topic in policy and strategy, its measurement remains difficult … mechanisms that may bias diffusion markers by leading to the understatement and/or overstatement of diffusion at different points … in time. Employing the case of “green chemistry,” we then compare three different diffusion markers – keywords, database …

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Intangible resources and technology adoption in manufacturing firms

Gómez, Jaime; Vargas, Pilar - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 9, pp. 1607-1619

Our objective in this paper is to analyse the determinants of the use of advanced manufacturing technologies in manufacturing firms. We go beyond more traditional approaches and consider the role of complementarities in technology adoption at two levels. First, we adapt Teece's (1986) framework...

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The “sailing ship effect”: Reassessing history as a source of insight on technical change

Mendonça, Sandro - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 10, pp. 1724-1738

The so-called “sailing ship effect” has often been stated as though there is no doubt that it really took place in the end of the 19th century. The notion has, moreover, been used as a stylised fact that is in charge of conveying the idea that the substitution threat of new radical...

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Production technologies and financial performance: The effect of uneven diffusion among competitors

Fuentelsaz, Lucio; Gómez, Jaime; Palomas, Sergio - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 2, pp. 401-413

We explore the impact of a production technology on financial performance from the perspectives of technology diffusion … and competitive strategy theory. We analyse how diffusion at firm and market levels influences the returns from the … intensive adopters. We empirically test our propositions through the analysis of the diffusion of the Automated Teller Machine …

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