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This paper reviews the contribution that Prometheus has made over the past 20 years to the literature on innovation …, innovation policy and technological change. I offer first a necessarily subjective view of how the research literatures of … innovation and innovation policy have developed in recent decades. I then compare that account with an interpretation of the …
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element, the authors' model may be able to explain a firm's incentives for an innovation rather than incentives for the …
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A critical factor in industrial competitiveness is the ability of firms to exploit new technological developments. We term this ability a firm's absorptive capacity and argue that such a capability not only enables a firm to exploit new extramural knowledge, but to predict more accurately the...
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This paper outlines a set of fundamental changes in the global economy that have altered the nature of the innovation … innovation. Against the background of a changing global economy, the purpose of the paper is to make an overview over the role … and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic …
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This study investigates the adoption of technological innovation in a least-developed economy: Lao People's Democratic …
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This paper analyses factors affecting adoption of pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) process heat plant (PHP) technology, a nuclear power generation technology, among intensive energy consumers in South Africa. It reports on a study that analysed the factors affecting take up of a novel...
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Business researchers have a growing interest in value creation perspectives to firm strategy. The present article provides a novel examination of the financial performance implications of strategic emphases on creating novel consumer value vs. capturing value, by taking a configuration approach...
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We aim to model the "optimal" choice on internal versus external innovation for value capture of different-sized firms …. We derive implications for "closed" versus "open" innovation approaches, and we discuss managerial practice, limitations …
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This article presents the main instruments of the “management of innovation” from the Lisbon Strategy perspective …
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