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Service Innovation, Embeddedness and Business Performance: Evidence from Northern Ireland

Love, James; Roper, Stephen; Hewitt-Dundas, Nola - In: Regional Studies 44 (2010) 8, pp. 983-1004

Northern Ireland, Regional Studies. This paper explores the factors that determine innovation by service firms, and in … Ireland. Evidence is found of negative intra-regional embeddedness effects, but there is a positive contribution to innovation … propre au R-U - et de la Annual Business Enquiry for Northern Ireland (enquete annuelle sur le commerce en Irlande du Nord …

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THE VALUE OF DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: SOME ECONOMETRIC EVIDENCE

Roper, Stephen; Love, James H; Vahter, Priit - Majandusteaduskond, Tartu Ülikool - 2012

Investments in design play a potentially significant role in new product development (NPD) although there is little unanimity on the most appropriate or effective design strategy. Previous case-study based studies have identified three alternative design strategies for NPD: design used as a...

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Externalities of openness in innovation

Roper, Stephen; Vahter, Priit; Love, James H. - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 9, pp. 1544-1554

Discussion of open innovation has typically stressed the benefits to the individual enterprise from boundary-spanning linkages and improved internal knowledge sharing. In this paper we explore the potential for wider benefits from openness in innovation and argue that openness may itself...

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Openness and innovation performance: are small firms different?

Vahter, Priit; Love, James; Roper, Stephen - Warwick Business School, University of Warwick - 2012

Traditionally, literature on open innovation has concentrated on analysis of larger firms. We explore whether and how the benefits of openness in innovation are different for small firms (less than 50 employees) compared to medium and large ones. Using panel data over a long time period...

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The value of design strategies for new product development: Some econometric evidence

Roper, Stephen; Love, James; Vahter, Priit - Warwick Business School, University of Warwick - 2012

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In with the new: the determinants of prescribing innovation by general practitioners in Ireland

Bourke, Jane; Roper, Stephen - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 13 (2012) 4, pp. 393-407

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From knowledge to added value: A comparative, panel-data analysis of the innovation value chain in Irish and Swiss manufacturing firms

Roper, Stephen; Arvanitis, Spyros - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 6, pp. 1093-1106

Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive … advantage. In recent years, however, R&D and innovation growth in Ireland has been markedly stronger than that in Switzerland … change in Switzerland and through process change in Ireland. Other differences in the determinants of innovation performance …

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Dynamic complementarities in innovation strategies

Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen; Vahter, Priit - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 10, pp. 1774-1784

Using a panel of Irish manufacturing plants over the period 1991–2008 we test for dynamic complementarities in the joint use of internal R&D and external knowledge sources. We find little evidence, either from considering successive cross-sectional waves of comparable surveys, or in terms of...

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Openness and innovation - home and export demand effects on manufacturing innovation: Panel data evidence for Ireland and Switzerland

Woerter, Martin; Roper, Stephen - 2008

panel data for two small open economies - Ireland and Switzerland. Our analysis is based on the estimation of reduced form …

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From knowledge to added value: A comparative, panel-data analysis of the innovation value chain in Irish and Swiss manufacturing firms

Roper, Stephen; Arvanitis, Spyros - 2009

Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive … advantage. In recent years, however, R&D and innovation growth in Ireland has been markedly stronger than that in Switzerland … innovation intensity vary more, however, with external ownership significantly more important in Ireland. Finally, we consider …

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