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This study investigates how local milieus foster innovation success in firms. We complement the common practice of … availability of highly skilled labor and the proximity to suppliers matter for firms' innovation performance. Interestingly …, location factors obtained from the survey provide a more accurate explanation of how local milieus facilitate innovation. …
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Previous literature provided evidence on financing constraints for investment in R&D activities due to capital market imperfections and special features of R&D investments. Moreover, it has been shown that a shift in capital structure towards more debt, results in a reduction of R&D investments....
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developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has not been linked to the open innovation concept yet. In this …
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labor, capital and natural resources towards intellectual resources. This study investigates how the management of knowledge … influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we … management techniques and their influence on product and process innovation. The ability to source external knowledge positively …
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Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form … monitored by their corporate sponsors, resulting in less favorable conditions for radical innovation. …
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Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level...
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This study focuses on the effect of public funding on internal R&D investment and on total innovation intensity on a … whether or not governments could further foster R&D activities by extending innovation policies to currently not supported …
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This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …
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as reduced remuneration and job loss. However, managers might over-invest into innovation for reasons of growth implying … their own interests. When entrenched, managers do not fear detrimental effects of risky innovation projects on their career …, and hence tend to over-invest into innovation. …
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