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Dispositifs, contraintes et opportunités de l’innovation en Tunisie
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
creative organization providing a central place to Research and Development(R&D). This Tribune examines the innovation effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271332
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Product-market competition, corporate governance and innovation: evidence on US-listed firms
Hashem, Nawar; Ugur, Mehmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258940
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Eco-Innovation – Does Additional Engagement Lead to Additional Rewards?
Doran, Justin; Ryan, Geraldine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Purpose Eco-innovation is any form of product, process or organisational innovation that contributes towards sustainable development. Firms can eco-innovate in a variety of ways. In this paper we identify nine different eco-innovation activities - including such items as reducing material use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259123
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Switching from Patents to an Intertemporal Bounty in a Non-Scale Growth Model: Transitional Dynamics and Welfare Evaluation
Lin, Hwan C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm to determine the size of prizes. In this paper, a decentralized market mechanism via the intertemporal bounty (IB) system can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259176
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Cross Sectoral Differences in Drivers of Innovation
Doran, Justin; Jordan, Declan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper analyses differences across sectors in firms’ propensity to innovate and the relative importance of inputs to innovation classifying firms into four broad sectors. The propensity and drivers of four types of innovation (new to firm, new to market, process and organisational) within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259623
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How Innovation Systems and Development Theories complement each other
Natera, Jose Miguel; Pansera, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper aims at comparing some of the most influential theories of development with the notion of Innovation Systems (IS). The objective is to understand if this comparison can be used to delve into the role of innovation within the development process. We start defining the main features that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259626
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A Theory of Intelligence and Total Factor Productivity: Value Added Reflects the Fruits of Fluid Intelligence
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, a theory of total factor productivity (TFP) that incorporates a model of intelligence is formulated and described. In particular, the fluid intelligence of ordinary workers is emphasized as an important element in TFP because such workers have the intelligence to innovate, even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259766
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Bölgesel İnovasyon Sistemleri: Başarı Koşulları ve Politika Çıkarımları
Sungur, Onur; Keskin, Hidayet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Innovation system approach, as a result of change in understanding of the innovation process, can be examined in sectoral, regional and national level. Regional innovation system initiatives which aim at increasing the innovative capacity regions have been implemented in the West for a long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259921
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Innovation as a lever for sustainable development: the case of agriculture and water management in the region of Sadaguia
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A central issue around which the recent growth literature has evolved is that of sustainable development. In this perspective, expansions of interest in the analyzing of water resources and the problems to which they are applied should be taken in account. As considered a limiting factor for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259947
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The Roles of R&D and networking for innovation by Irish and foreign-owned firms: evidence from the Irish CIS 2006-08
Doran, Justin; O'Leary, Eoin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper provides an empirical test of Cohen and Levinthal’s (1990) hypothesis that undertaking R&D and collaborating … simultaneously undertaking R&D are more likely to innovate than firms which perform these two activities individually. However, Irish …-owned firms which engage in backward networking for product and forward networking for process innovation while also undertaking R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259958