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We examine the diffusion of steam technology across British counties during the eighteenth century. First, we provide new estimates for the regional variations in the timing, pace and extent of usage of steam engines. Our main data source is an updated version of the list of steam engines...
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Förderprogramme des Bundes, der Länder und der EU sind deshalb eine wichtige zusätzliche Finanzierungsquelle für FuE sowie Innovation …, am ehesten Schwierigkeiten mit externer Finanzierung von FuE und Innovation haben. Deshalb sollte der Zugang von KMU zu … for R & D and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises. In an analysis of around 1,500 innovative SMEs in the …
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The innovation policy of the German government and Länder provides small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a … wide range of programs to promote their R & D and focuses, in particular, on the transfer of knowledge. In recent years … R&D expenditure and intensified their knowledge exchange with universities and research facilities. Government funding …
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Verdoorn's law refers to a statistical relationship between the long-run growth rate of labour productivity and the growth rate of output, usually for the manufacturing sector. Since the sixties this relationship has been examined in a large number of studies using a wide variety of data sets...
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knowledge-intensive service industries, however, the introduction of the euro has instead led to an increase in national … disparities. This is mainly a result of the strong and increasing focus on knowledge-intensive services in countries such as … Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Ireland. Germany's level of specialization in knowledge-intensive services is only average …
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Nowadays, creation, exchange and transfer of knowledge (CETK) are turning into the most significant activity for … companies. This article sheds light on Swedish and Bulgarian companies within a mature industry in terms of their knowledge … flows for collaboration and innovation. Companies from the two countries as well as Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and …
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extremely dependent on the availability of knowledge, this article seeks to clarify the role of knowledge transfer in innovation … hypothesis raised. -- knowledge management ; knowledge transfer ; people management practices ; innovation …This paper focuses on the issue of knowledge transfer, an important area in knowledge management. The aim of the paper …
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This study elaborates a proposal of the main reasons and risks at Information Systems Outsourcing. We try also to evaluate these reasons and risks in the case of the largest Spanish firms and to analyse their temporary evolution. To achieve this objective a questionnaire has been carried out...
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This paper analyses, from a Knowledge-based View of the Firm, how companies formulate and implement their knowledge … established objectives, knowledge management tools that are used by the company, and the importance that it is given to certain … implemented, as well as divergences in innovative postures and financial performance in these firms. -- knowledge management …
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Although traditionally the roads used for the transfer of the knowledge generated in the universities have been the …
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