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Markets, Competition, Cooperation and Innovation.
Kitson, M; Michie, J; Quinn, M - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001
The paper analyses the relationship between, on the one hand, markets, competition and cooperation, and on the other hand, firms' innovative behaviour. Drawing on ESRC Centre for Business Research survey results, the paper uses descriptive statistics and a qualitative response model to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162864
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The Development of Knowledge in Portugal: A Slow and Unsustainable Progress
Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and … Government has drastically been diminishing support to education and R&D over the last years, as a consequence of the austerity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168467
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Do innovation dimensions matter in China’s cross-regional income differences?
Yang, Jingjing; Khalil, Sana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
significantly explained by R&D manpower and expenditure, highly educated students, and public education spending, while GDP is …&D subsidies and education rebate. …
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Innovation in small and medium-sized companies: Knowledge integration mechanisms and the role of top managers’ networks
Fliaster, Alexander; Golly, Tanja - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 25 (2014) 2, pp. 125-147
hierarchical levels. In many SMEs, however, such formal mechanisms are complemented or even replaced by informal social networks … among managers and employees. Despite the relevance of intraorganizational networks, past research on SMEs, however, was … focused mainly on the interorganizational level of analysis. To cover this gap, we map ego networks of senior managers in SMEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010940824
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Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States
Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25
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 … education practices that enrich student learning, helping children to reach their highest potential in some countries, cultural …
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Positive relationships among collaboration for innovation, past innovation abandonment and future product introduction in manufacturing SMEs
Sawang, Sukanlaya; Matthews, Judy H. - 2010
The importance of collaboration for firm level innovation has been well established but much of the research focuses on … innovation and external collaboration and between future product innovation and past abandonment in small and medium sized firms … level of new product introduction than firms that did not have any external collaboration. Further, firms with past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438201
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CanŽt block, must run: Small firms and appropriality
Byma, Justin; Leiponen, Aija - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006
and growth of small firms. Furthermore, innovation policies that mandate collaboration are likely to significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749348
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Business Groups, Innovation and Institutional Voids in Latin America
Fulvio, Castellacci - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper presents an empirical analysis of the innovative activities of business groups in Latin America. It compares the innovativeness of group-affiliated firms (GAFs) and standalone firms (SAFs), and it investigates how country-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260711
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Financial Constraints, Innovation Performance and Sectoral Disaggregation
Efthyvoulou, Georgios; Vahter, Priit - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2012
How do the effects of financial constraints on innovation performance vary by sector and firm characteristics? This paper uses innovation survey data from eleven European countries to examine the heterogeneity of these effects. So far, there has been a lack of cross-country micro-level studies...
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Does Partner Type Matter in R&D Collaboration for Environmental Innovation?
Pippel, Gunnar - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2013
firm’s environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … of R&D collaboration partners is im-portant for the environmental innovation performance. Firm-level data from 2,337 Ger …-man service and manufacturing firms are used in the regression analysis. The results suggest that R&D collaboration with suppliers …
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