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Collaboration for innovation in services
Hipp, Christiane - 2009
The research was motivated by the importance of inter-firm collaboration within service innovation. Inter-firm collaboration covers a broad range of organizational combinations of various size and motivations in various levels of formal agreements. The book chapter will explore the choice of...
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The role of data and knowledge in firms' service and product innovation
Koski, Heli - 2012
The importance of data and different sources of knowledge in the development of new services and products, and further in the creation of new markets, has dramatically increased during the past few decades. This empirical study uses data from 531 Finnish firms to explore the determinants of...
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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'
Thorwarth, Susanne; Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008
Many studies investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures as an input and patents as an intermediate product or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions has been underestimated in the literature, as scholars...
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Financing constraints, fixed capital and R&D investment decisions of belgian firms
Cincera, Michele - 2002
This paper aims at assessing the relationship between the possible existence of financial constraints and the decisions of Belgian private firms as regards their investments in both capital and R&D investments over the last decade. The main system GMM estimates from the error-correction...
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Investment, R&D and liquidity constraints: A corporate governance approach to the Belgian evidence
Van Cayseele, Pr. D. Patrick - 2002
In this contribution, we present a novel instrument to control for investment opportunities in studying the investment-cash-flow sensitivity. More in particular we introduce the book value of R&D. We argue this instrument has advantages over other theories of investment, especially when...
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Absorptive capacity and innovation: When is it better to cooperate?
Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Savin, Ivan - 2012
Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
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Local Networks to Compete in the Global Era. The Italian SMEs Experience
Gurrieri, Antonia R.; Petruzzellis, Luca - 2006
This study is concerned with the factors that influence the cooperation among cluster-based firms. Theorists have consistently demonstrated the role and importance of economic externalities, such as knowledge spillovers, within industrial clusters. Less attention has been paid to the...
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Youth Unemployment in Belgium: Diagnosis and Key Remedies
Cockx, Bart - 2013
In Belgium youth unemployment is structurally higher than the European (EU27) average, in particular for the low …
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Armoede en ongelijkheid bij ouderen: Een vergelijkende studie van de pensioenstelsels in België en Nederland
Keupers, Ingrid - 2009
tested on two cases namely Belgium and the Netherlands. Based on micro data on household income as found in the LIS database … in pension systems that are targeted and will be the lowest in universal systems. In Belgium (targeted minimum pension … than for elderly men and this gender difference is greater in the Netherlands than in Belgium. The paradox of …
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The regional dimension of collective wage bargaining: the case of Belgium
Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - 2008
. The second solution, the regionalisation of wage bargaining, is frequently mentioned in Belgium or in Italy where regional …
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