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Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...
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The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and widespread integration project to ensure that a company?s innovative capabilities are carried forward into the future. Previous research has shown, however, that the combined...
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How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability … education policy and practice into a key component of national innovation strategies: human capital development. Asian countries … are developing an emphasis on innovation and creativity at all levels of education, while the United States continues (via …
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We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
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We study a situation in which an R&D department promotes the introduction of an innovation that results in costly re … implementing the so-called skunk works model of innovation where the R&D department is isolated from the rest of the organization …
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, showing how barriers to innovation and limiting steps within the R&D process are changing as a result of bioinformatics. …
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Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …
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in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …
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innovation framework. …
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tradeoffs between supporting R&D and supporting diffusion in the presence of limited public funds to promote innovation merit …
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