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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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Smart Contracts: Myths and Implications for Economics and Financial Regulation
Lehr, William - 2022
include cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and smart contracts as distinct elements) have been the focus of excessive hype that has …
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Blockchain: A Coordination Mechanism
Pietrewicz, Lesław - 2019
Blockchain technology is firmly established in the public awareness as a revolutionary new technology underpinning … interest in the coordination aspect of the contract scholarship. The aim of this conceptual paper is to model blockchain as a … coordination for online transactions. The model is intended to inform debates on the prospects for the blockchain technology and …
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Blockchains as a Path to a Network of Systems - An Emerging New Trend of the Digital Platforms in Industry and Society
Mattila, Juri; Seppälä, Timo - 2015
as the blockchain technology, are emerging to address this problem. These new distributed architecture solu- tions may …
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Blockchain-Token: Begriffsabgrenzungen für erfolgreiche Geschäftsmodelle
Welker, Carl B. - 2024
The existence of bitcoins and NFTs, and perhaps also the possibility of founding a company on a blockchain network … activities such as coin minting, blockchain installations and the creation of Web3-related off-chain and on-chain financial …
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Networks and innovation: the role of social assets in explaining firms' innovative capacity
Cantner, Uwe; Conti, Elisa; Meder, Andreas - 2009
The claim of a positive association between a firm’s social assets and its inno-vative capacity is a widely debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany, increasingly di-rected to cluster formation. In the light...
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Balancing firm and network-based resources to gain competitive advantage: A case study of an artisanal musical instruments cluster in Germany
Leick, Birgit - In: Management Revue 24 (2013) 2, pp. 77-95
The question of whether firms gain competitiveness through local networks and clusters becomes more relevant than ever as globalization proceeds. This is particularly true for traditional and craft-based clusters, districts and business networks. A central question emerging for these types of...
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Regional effects on cooperative innovation activities and the related variety of regional knowledge bases
Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - 2009
The literature on Innovation Systems is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition of the system's borders. This paper intro- duces a methodology how to differentiate between regional and technological effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes...
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Innovationskooperationen und Wissenstransfer von Unternehmen im Raum Jena
Kaps, Katharina; Pfeil, Silko; Sauer, Thomas; Stoetzer, … - 2011
Die im Rahmen des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderten Projektes KompNet2011 - Erfolgsfaktoren regionaler Innovationsnetze - durchgeführte Befragung untersucht die Innovationskooperationen sowie Wissenstransferaktivitäten von schwerpunktmäßig kleinen und...
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Radical Innovation and Network Evolution
Phlippen, Sandra; Riccaboni, Massimo - 2007
This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network structures. We use longitudinal data of interfirm R&D collaborations in the biopharmaceutical industry in which a new technological regime is established. Our findings suggest...
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