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Traditionally, corporate treasury management has been strategically based on the idea of advancing collections and delaying payments, which has been regulated through the intermediation of financial entities using, for example, credit accounts. New technologies applied to the financial field...
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This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across … natural sciences and narrower fields such as economics and biology. Two measures of institutional collaboration are examined … collaboration patterns across universities and then use regression analysis to examine the impact of IT exposure on multi …
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services) is typically assumed to be closely related to social trust. The two sharing economy companies Airbnb and Flipkey … exist in over 100 countries, allowing us to construct a measure of sharing economy penetration to test against social trust … economic openness, whereas the correlation with social trust is negative and often statistically significant. Our conclusion is …
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Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing new. What is new is studying how this relationship fares in latecomer economic contexts such as Nigeria, and that is the focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation...
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firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … of R&D collaboration partners is important for the environmental innovation performance. Firm-level data from 2 …,337 German service and manufacturing firms are used in the regression analysis. The results suggest that R&D collaboration with …
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The stimulation of co-operations and networks has become very popular in R&D policies in recent years. This study examines the development and the impact of publicly funded R&D consortia in Germany. The paper describes the history of R&D funding in Germany with a focus on the development of...
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This study focuses on the impact of innovation policies and R&D collaboration in Germany and Finland. We consider … collaboration and subsidies as heterogeneous treatments, and perform an econometric matching to analyze patent activity at the firm … level. In general, we find that collaboration has positive effects. In Germany, subsidies for individual research do not …
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This study focuses on the impact of innovation policies and R&D collaboration in Germany and Finland. We consider … collaboration and subsidies as heterogeneous treatments, and perform an econometric matching to analyze R&D and patent activity at … the firm level. In general, we find that collaboration has positive effects. In Germany, subsidies for individual research …
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This paper explores the contribution of design activities on product market performance of Belgian companies. While there is mounting evidence that design can be seen as a strategic tool to successfully spur sales of new product developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has...
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Prior research shows long-run productivity growth in agriculture is associated with increases in the stock of public scientific knowledge and private patented inventions. However, private inventions may be a function of the stock of public knowledge. In this paper, we examine the possibility...
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