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direction of innovation. In particular, developments in the ICT sector have been discussed as a currently dominant source of … understanding of the innovation process have widened the perspective. Essentially, industrial innovation is a process of knowledge … discussed. As several examples of the policies which support innovation reveal, Member States have developed new strategies …
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marketing or innovation. The second taxonomy discriminates between industries according to their employment of skilled labour …
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This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...
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We test whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a …
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to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per …, exports, or population density. Innovation and foreign ownership appear to be the strongest drivers of multifactor …
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For a large sample of enterprises in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the "DACH" region) we study the impact of policy instruments such as energy-related taxes, subsidies, standards and negotiated agreements, or other regulations on the firm's ecological and economic performance. To identify...
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Entrepreneurship has been characterised as one of the most intriguing but equally elusive concepts in economics. This critical review first surveys its major intellectual roots and then proposes a modular concept of entrepreneurship that preserves its essentially distinctive behavioural,...
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This paper presents an integrated set of innovation taxonomies for firms and sectors. It discards the practice of … representing industries by some average behaviour, instead characterising them by the distribution of diverse innovation modes at …. Applying statistical cluster analysis, the empirical identification is based on the micro-data of the Community Innovation …
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To address the relationship between innovation and competition we jointly estimate the opportunity, production, and … impact functions of innovation in a simultaneous system. Based on Swiss micro-data, we apply a 3-SLS system estimation. The … low innovation, 2. low competition with high innovation, and 3. a "no innovation trap" at very high levels of competition …
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