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

Schmiele, Anja; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2007

co-opetition) is becoming an increasingly interesting way to gain access to well guarded knowledge from abroad. However …, to be able to benefit from these paradox alliances, a certain level of international co-opetition readiness is required … competitor. Hence, we envision co-opetition as a balancing act between appropriability practices and absorptive capacities in a …

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Are Local Milieus the Key to Innovation Performance?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Binz, Hanna L. - 2008

This study investigates how local milieus foster innovation success of firms. We complement the common practice of linking firm performance indicators to regional characteristics with survey evidence on the perceived importance of locational factors. While the former approach assumes that...

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Formal and Informal Technology Transfer from Academia to Industry: Complementarity Effects and Innovation Performance

Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2008

Literature has identified formal and informal channels in university technology transfer. While formal technology transfer typically involves a legal contract on a patent or on collaborative research activities, informal transfer channels refer to personal contacts and hence to the tacit...

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Are Local Milieus the Key to Innovation Performance?

Binz, Hanna L.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008

This study investigates how local milieus foster innovation success in firms. We complement the common practice of linking firm performance indicators to regional characteristics with survey evidence on the perceived importance of locational factors. While the former approach assumes that...

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Does professional knowledge management improve innovation performance at the firm level?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - 2009

The concept of knowledge has gained in interest since industrialized economics have induced a shift in importance from labor, capital and natural resources towards intellectual resources. This study investigates how the management of knowledge influences the innovation performance of a firm....

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The influence of international dispersed vs. home-based R&D on innovation performance

Peters, Bettina; Schmiele, Anja - 2010

Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international knowledge. This paper evaluates this strategy by investigating whether firms with international R&D are more innovative than firms doing R&D only in their home country. One main...

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Costs and benefits of inter-departmental innovation collaboration

Cuijpers, Maarten; Guenter, Hannes; Hussinger, Katrin - 2011

Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been identified as source of increased coordination costs. Using organizational information processing theory, this paper builds and tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of...

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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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R&D partnerships and innovation performance: Can there be too much of a good thing?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - 2015

R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance. Fewer studies addressed potential drawbacks of...

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Radical or incremental: Where does R&D policy hit?

Beck, Mathias; Lopes-Bento, Cindy; Schenker-Wicki, Andrea - 2014

This study investigates the efficacy of public R&D support. Compared to most existing studies, we do not stop at substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental...

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