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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?
Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013
Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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Institutional Changes and Industry Dynamics in the IPR Service Sector : A Small Open Economy Perspective
Heikkilä, Jussi; Peltoniemi, Mirva - 2022
Patents and other intellectual property rights (IPR) are at the core of innovation studies. Patent attorneys and other IPR experts play an important role in drafting and filing processes yet are usually overlooked in analyses on filing activity. We conduct an exploratory case study to shed light...
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Entrepreneurship in secondary and tertiary sectors : the same determinants?
Brása, Gonçalo Rodrigues; Soukiazis, Elias - In: Cogent business & management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
The aim of this study is to test empirically the determinants of entrepreneurship (overall and sectoral) in the … confirm (or reject) diverse hypotheses. The main results indicate that the determinants of entrepreneurship in the industry … are significantly different from the determinants of entrepreneurship in the services sector in Portugal. On the other …
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Corporate entrepreneurship and service firms' performance in Nigeria
Oladimeji, Moruff Sanjo; Abosede, Adebiyi Julius; Eze, … - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 17 (2019) 1, pp. 3-15
The study examines the effect of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) as measured by innova-tion, risk taking, proactiveness …
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Sociocultural Factors and Female Entrepreneurship in the Innovative Service Sector in Catalonia : A Qualitative Analysis
Noguera, María; Alvarez, Claudia; Ribeiro, Domingo; … - 2013
The purpose of this chapter is to analyse the main sociocultural factors and their impact on female entrepreneurship in … networks, role models, entrepreneurial attitudes and family context are important determinants of female entrepreneurship … contributes both theoretically, with the creation of knowledge in less researched areas such as female entrepreneurship in Spain …
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Entrepreneurship, Management Services and Economic Growth
Salas-Fumás, Vicente; Sanchez-Asin, J. Javier - 2007
We set out to model the joint production of entrepreneurs and workers where the former provide both entrepreneurial (strategic) and managerial (coordination, motivation) services whilst management services are shared with individual workers in such a way that output is maximized. The static...
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Bridging what we know : the effect of cognitive distance on knowledge-intensive business services produced offshore
Mol, Michael J.; Brandl, Kristin - In: International business review : the official journal of … 27 (2018) 3, pp. 669-677
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Innovation in the Service Sector and the Role of Patents and Trade Secrets
Morikawa, Masayuki - 2017
This paper, using Japanese firm-level data, presents findings about innovative activities in the service sector and the role of patents and trade secrets on innovation. According to the analysis, first, service firms have fewer product innovations than do manufacturing firms, but the...
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The Impact of R&D Subsidy on Innovation : A Study of New Zealand Firms
Jaffe, Adam B. - 2015
This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New Zealand. Using a large database that links administrative and tax data with survey data, we are able to control for large number of firm characteristics and thus minimise selection...
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The Significance of Services and Data in Global Value Chains
Meltzer, Joshua P - 2021
Global value chains (GVC) are undergoing a transformation as business focus on building resilience. Services and data are already adding value to GVC, particularly manufacturing GVC. Global data flows and digital technologies such as cloud computing and AI enable growth in digitally enabled...
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