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relationship between productivity growth, innovation and digital technology adoption plays out is particularly important for the … improved products through product innovation, and makes firms more efficient at producing goods through process innovation …. Firm- level studies generally find evidence of strong positive productivity effects for firms that invest in R&D. In this …
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User innovation is a broadly discussed phenomenon in the context of open innovation which describes, for instance, the … field of lead users and user innovation, scientific literature provides only a few insights into how barriers are … research into the effects of user innovation barriers on user-generated products, and how user innovators' personal …
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In recent years a phenomenon called "frugal innovation" has increasingly gained traction in the scholarly discourse … what is it that makes India a forerunner for an innovation paradigm with increasing global relevance? In this paper, I … participation of Indian students that underscore the role of culture as a key determinant for the acceptance of frugal innovation …
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The phenomenon of frugal innovation, as characterized by "affordable excellence", is experiencing increasing acceptance … businesses and fail to comprehend the importance of frugal innovation. They would be well advised to retain their focus on … innovation approaches. Instead of focusing on delivering "more for more for few" they should rather continue to focus on …
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In this paper we present and describe a large quarterly frequency, macroeconomic database. The data provided are closely modeled to that used in Stock and Watson (2012a). As in our previous work on FRED-MD, our goal is simply to provide a publicly available source of macroeconomic “big data”...
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productivity. We merge new EU CIS and WIOD meso level data to assess the innovation effects on sector CO2 performances at a wide EU … support environmental productivity. We believe that the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental …Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2 …
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indicators such as employment, turnover, and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms … with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … employment, turnover, and labour productivity from the System of the Enterprise Account (SEA). We specify a Gibrat-like empirical …
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The success of NPD projects of high-cost, engineering-intensive, and customized development products is largely dependent on information sharing with actors from customers regarding their specific requirements (Von Hippel, 1986). But information sharing is also necessary among actors from...
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-level productivity, which allows us to capture the skewed firm size distribution seen in the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS). We … compare the welfare and aggregate productivity implications of our non-Gaussian process to those of a standard AR(1) process …. While credit subsidies resolve misallocation of resources and enhance aggregate productivity, increased factor prices, in …
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