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Innovation Process is Facilitated in Virtual Environment of R&D Teams
Shafia, Mohammad Ali; Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web … findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it …
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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demo- graphics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754933
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Patents as Collateral
Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Amable, Bruno - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2010), pp. 1094-1104
This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....
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Patents as Collateral
Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Bruno, Amable - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....
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Innovation and Growth: A Survey of the Literature and a Case Study for Latin America
García, Danny - In: REVISTA ECOS DE ECONOMÍA (2007)
This paper analyzes the recent literature on innovation and its determinants from an institutional point of view …. Innovation is a concept that has been defined by several authors as implementing new ideas, processes, mechanisms and methods … process of innovation. This is analyzed theoretically …
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Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2005
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to...
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Due diligence, research joint ventures, and incentives to innovate
Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011
The decision to cooperate within R&D joint ventures is often based on expert advice. Such advice typically originates in a due diligence process, which assesses the R&D joint venture's profitability, for example, by appraising the achievability of synergies. We show that if the experts who...
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Capacites d'innovation : le capital de savoir, gage de survie et de croissance des entreprises
Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
Le present document decrit les constatations tirees d'un programme de recherche visant a souligner l'importance des competences qui decoulent des investissements dans l'actif incorporel pour le processus de croissance des entreprises. Le programme comportait deux parties. Premierement, des bases...
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Innovation Capabilities: The Knowledge Capital Behind the Survival and Growth of Firms
Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process of competencies that arise from investments in intangible assets. The program has consisted of two parts. First, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on...
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