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Technology Use, Organisational Flexibility and Innovation: Evidence for Germany

Hempell, Thomas; Zwick, Thomas - 2005

differ. Functional flexibility is strongly positively associated with product innovations. In contrast, numerical flexibility … allows firms to ?buy? innovations in the short run, but reduces innovative capacity in the longer run. …

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Regional Innovation in the US over Space and Time

Varga, Attila; Anselin, Luc; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2003

Modeling the spatial aspect of growth has finally become an important subject of economics as exemplified by the increasing popularity of the new economic geography. However, new economic geography models have still not been able to develop a consistent approach to integrate innovation, space...

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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor. Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in La...

Kohnert, Dirk - 2006

The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...

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The Inventors Role: Was Schumpeter Right?

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Svensson, Roger - 2007

According to Schumpeter, the creative process of economic development can be divided into three distinguishable stages of invention, innovation (commercialization) and imitation. We show why there is a rationale for the Schumpeterian entrepreneur to also include the inventor in the innovation...

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Public sector innovation support by European states : its characteristics and impact on firms

Orviska, Marta; Nemec, Juraj - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 10 (2015) 1, pp. 19-31

In this paper we are concerned with the impact the public sector has on private sector innovation. Perhaps the most important issue is whether public sector innovation, or lack of it, impacts upon private sector firms. But we are also concern the extent perceptions of innovation across...

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Empirical patterns of firm growth and R&D investment : a quality ladder model interpretation

Klette, Tor Jakob; Griliches, Zvi - 1998

We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth. The model for firm growth is a partial equilibrium model drawing on the quality ladder models in the macro growth literature, but also on the literature on patent races and the...

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Measuring innovation using patent data

Svensson, Roger - 2015

innovations have been introduced in the market. This paper applies a new method to identify innovations in patent databases by … forward citations. Further, successful innovations are most positively related to patent renewal. Based on the traditional … innovations can be predicted. The developed parameters may be used to identify innovations across sectors and regions in other …

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Employment protection and the market for innovations

Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - 2015

innovation market. If employment protection is introduced, firms’ willingness to pay for product or process innovations increases … innovations and firms. …

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Innovations, prices, and employment : a theoretical model and an empirical application for West-German manufacturing firms

Smolny, Werner - 1996

In this paper, a theoretical model of the impact of product and process innovations on output, capacity utilization … than noninnovative firms. Innovations also change the market structure. The frequency of price and output changes is lower …

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Asset sources of competitive advantage of SMEs from high-tech sector in the region of Greater Poland

Gajowiak, Małgorzata - 2015

The article tackles the question of the ever growing importance of soft factors of production in the process of competitive advantage for contemporary enterprises. This condition has resulted of turbulent environment characterized by increasing competition, generalized uncertainty and...

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