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This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of "Japanese" versus "American" organizational structures...
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set of reforms over a 30-year period which effectively embedded knowledge creation in the Coastal regions of China. This … China’s Coastal regions. The first process was the opening up of the Coastal regions to foreign investment through the … the reform of China’s educational system. While the first two processes facilitated knowledge transfer and knowledge …
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The idea that innovation leads to positive economic performance has become a sort of truism in recent years. However … relationship between performance and innovation at the level of design teams, projects, firms, networks, industries, and countries … the relationship between innovation and performance. It builds upon an extensive review of contributions in economics …
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The analysis of innovation and the evolution of industries evolution has witnessed major progress in several areas …. Contributions at the empirical, appreciative, econometric and modelling levels have greater advanced our understanding of innovation … are required for a better understanding of the relationship between innovation and the evolution of industries: the …
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' preferences. Through this permanent process of variation and selection of hypotheses (innovation / imitation) a process of … periods which consist of an innovation and an imitation phase are simulated. We presume that decentrality is crucial for the …
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S IMMIE J. (2003) Innovation and urban regions as national and international nodes for the transfer and sharing of … the context of the development of the international economy. It is argued that knowledge is a key resource for innovation … the most significant regional concentrations of innovation are very adept at working across the interface of local and …
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This paper examines empirically whether firms located in strong industrial clusters are more innovative than firms located outside these regions. The study performs a firm-level analysis for two countries: Italy and the United Kingdom. European patent data for the period 1990-98 are used as...
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Taking in hand the two sides (i.e. cognitive and risk-bearing) of authority in design and production in complex tasks …
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Internationalisation occurs when the firm expands its selling, production, or other business activities into …
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