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Fit and complementarity: cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of co-operative R&D projects' outcomes in Europe

Zibell, Laurent; Allen, Peter M. - 2009

This article considers cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of concrete outcomes in co … projects managers in partnering organisations, addressing technical and scientific competence, R&D management competence and … cultural features. Empirical validation was performed on 92 projects based in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in the …

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Innovation Activities Abroad and the Effects of Liability of Foreignness: Where it Hurts

Sofka, Wolfgang - 2006

innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

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Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers: Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs

Spielkamp, Alfred; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2008

and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating …

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Resource allocation flexibility for innovation performance: The effects of breadth, uncertainty, and selectiveness

Klingebiel, Ronald; Rammer, Christian - 2011

Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly novel, i.e. new to the market. The effect of...

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Specialized search and innovation performance: evidence across Europe

Sofka, Wolfgang; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

Searching for external knowledge has frequently been characterized as crucial for firm success. However, little is known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms need to specialize their search strategy and that its...

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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004

The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....

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Absorptive Capacity: One Size Fits All? Firm-level Analysis of Absorptive Capacity for Different Kinds of Knowledge

Schmidt, Tobias - 2005

The paper empirically analyses the effect of R&D activities, human resource and knowledge management, and the organisation of knowledge sharing within a firm on the absorptive capacity of innovative firms for three different types of knowledge, namely absorptive capacity to use knowledge from a...

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Internationalizing R&D Co-opetition: Dress for the Dance with the Devil

Schmiele, Anja; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2007

Competitors can be valuable sources and partners for innovation activities. Against the background of international expansion of firms and increased international competition, the R&D collaborations with international competitors (international co-opetition) is becoming an increasingly...

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The Link Between Firms? Innovation Decision and the Business Cycle: An Empirical Analysis

Heger, Diana - 2004

The sensitivity of innovation activities with respect to the business cycle is often assumed to be small. In this paper the hypothesis on cyclical dependence of innovation activities is tested for firms in the German manufacturing, and additionally for SMEs. To this end firms? innovation...

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Global Idea Sourcing: An Empirical Investigation into the Mechanisms Behind the Usage of Foreign Business Sources for Innovation

Sofka, Wolfgang - 2005

Globalization has set new paradigms, especially in the business world. Breakthroughs in technology (telecommunications, logistics, the internet) and ideology (most notably economic and political trends in China and India) are creating exciting opportunities as well as crucial challenges. This...

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