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Human Capital, Firm Capabilities, and Innovation
Bhaskarbhatla, Ajay; Hegde, Deepak; Peeters, Thomas - 2017
Are differences in inventor productivity due to differences in inventors’ skills or differences in the capabilities of the firms they work for? We analyze a 37-year panel that tracks the patenting of U.S. inventors and find strong evidence for serial correlation in inventors’ productivity....
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You've Got Email: A Workflow Management Extraction System
Chaipornkaew, Piyanuch; Prexawanprasut, Takorn; … - 2017
Email is one of the most powerful tools for communication. Many businesses use email as the main channel for communication, so it is possible that substantial data are included in email content. In order to help businesses grow faster, a workflow management system may be required. The data...
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A Generalized Email Classification System for Workflow Analysis
Chaipornkaew, Piyanuch; Prexawanprasut, Takorn; Chang, … - 2017
One of the most powerful internet communication channels is email. As employees and their clients communicate primarily via email, much crucial business data is conveyed via email content. Where businesses are understandably concerned, they need a sophisticated workflow management system to...
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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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Radical Innovation and Network Evolution
Phlippen, Sandra; Riccaboni, Massimo - 2007
This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network structures. We use longitudinal data of interfirm R&D collaborations in the biopharmaceutical industry in which a new technological regime is established. Our findings suggest...
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Mergers and Innovation Portfolios
Moraga-González, José Luis; Motchenkova, Evgenia; … - 2019
This paper studies mergers in markets where firms invest in a portfolio of research projects of different profitability and social value. The portfolio nature of the investment problem brings about novel insights on the external effects of firms’ investments. The investment of a firm in...
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The Schumpeterian Entrepreneur: A Review of the Empirical Evidence on the Antecedents, Behavior, and Consequences of Innovative Entrepreneurship
Block, Joern H.; Fisch, Christian O.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2016
Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively discussion in academia and practice alike. Oftentimes, however, the debate is not sufficiently grounded on solid empirical evidence. The academic literature is growing but very...
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Maintenance Costs, Obsolescence, and Endogenous Growth
Berden, Koen G.; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2001
We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses the model of quality improvements todescribe...
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Signals in Science - On the Importance of Signaling in Gaining Attention in Science
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Henkens, Kène - 2004
Which signals are important in gaining attention in science? For a group of 1,371 scientific articles published in 17 demography journals in the years 1990-1992 we track their influence and discern which signals are important in receiving citations. Three types of signals are examined: the...
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Materials, Capital, Direct/Indirect Substitution and Mass Balance Production Functions
van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 1998
dimensions in economic production. A distinction is proposed between direct and indirect substitution. Linked to this, a … classification is offered of various types of substitutability and complementarity relationships between production factors. It is … argued that the neoclassical production function may be consistent with mass balance, but is unsuitable for a detailed and …
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