uncertainty, such as the recent global financial crisis, these coping methods often result in innovation in industry. Richards …, cut and fit (Finn, 2008), the concept of innovation is an important one. This paper explores the role of uncertainty as a … driver of innovation in fashion design. A key aspect of seeking knowledge, as a mechanism to cope with this uncertainty, is a …

How firms facing environmental uncertainty should organize their activities remains an important and challenging … must adjust their activities to fit the level of environmental uncertainty to ensure long-term survival. Although much work … has been done on contingency theory, it is clear that our understanding of uncertainty is far from complete. One important …

’s internal and external environment. This dissertation contributes to the entrepreneurship and innovation literatures by … contributes to literatures on managing uncertainty and unexpected events. …

to occur. Interestingly, we fi…nd that supply uncertainty and demand uncertainty affect the fi…rms' profi…ts in an … opposite manner under the advance booking program: the …firms' expected pro…ts tend to decrease in supply uncertainty, but they … tend to increase in demand uncertainty. …

We investigate the innovation rate under the impact of business cycles to understand R&D activities and to derive …, we study the Markov perfect equilibrium where heterogeneous firms choose whether to participate in the innovation race … and the innovation rate. Based on the analytical results derived from the price competition, we find that increased income …

Innovation ist von zentraler Bedeutung für Entwicklung und Wirtschaftswachstum. Innovation findet in einem … oder Effizienz. In drei Aufsätzen untersucht diese Dissertation die Verwendung von Auktionen im Kontext von Innovation … Lizenzen zur Nutzung einer patentierten Innovation an Unternehmen in einem oligopolistischen Markt. Das Kapitel analysiert eine …

innovation, either to reduce production costs for a given output, to create a new product or service, or to deliver products to …

Verständnis dieser Dynamik, analysiert diese Dissertation die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Innovation und Wettbewerb. Die Arbeit … wirtschaftlichen Tätigkeit analysiert. Betrachtet man den Einfluss von Wettbewerb auf Innovation, zeigt eine empirische Analyse, dass … Innovation auf Wettbewerb, sind zwei Ergebnisse wert genannt zu werden. Erstens, obwohl profitabel von der Perspektive einzelner …

This Ph.D. dissertation studies innovation in Germany from 1877 to 1914. The German patents that had survived for at … least ten years are used as a proxy of innovation. The introduction briefly outlines the issues to be investigated. The … distribution of patents across industries and across regions. The second chapter investigates the regional innovation system (RIS …