Hidden Champions (HCs) are firms unknown to the wider public, but global leaders in the niche markets they serve. This paper looks at distinctive features of these firms, focusing on their dynamic capabilities. Employing a unique data base on German firms, we identify a representative sample of...

Evolutionary approaches of the firm devote a part of their analysis to firm behavior and to some processes acting inside the firm, however the internal workings of firms are, most of the time, not deeply analyzed. In this perspective, this paper attempts to investigate whether " we can drop...

The paper studies the decision of firms to expense or capitalize R&D. In a two-period model, a monopolist decides on how much to invest in R&D and how much of that investment to capitalize, and then on each period's output. It is found that the firm has an incentive to mismatch the benefits and...

Hidden Champions (HCs) are firms unknown to the wider public, but global leaders in the niche markets they serve. This paper looks at distinctive features of these firms, focusing on their dynamic capabilities. Employing a unique data base on German firms, we identify a representative sample of...

The aim is to obtain a set of variables which report about knowledge management and intangible in the innovative SMEs in Galicia. This is a first approach to a model of structural relationships between both and the growth of the activity of the SMEs with greater focus on innovation. Several...

This study examined the personal traits that contribute to the success of corporate science projects in Peru by focusing on the roles of CEOs, scientists, and innovators. Although Peru has seen economic progress in recent decades, integrating scientific research into business strategies requires...

This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network structures. We use longitudinal data of interfirm R&D collaborations in the biopharmaceutical industry in which a new technological regime is established. Our findings suggest...

The management of the transition to bioeconomy has developed relatively recently, to cope with the challenges of the 21st century. The determinants of transition are related to economic, social, biological and environmental evolution. In particular, the envisaged factors consist in demographic...

This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2009 that knowledge alliances have a positive effect on patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. However, when distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and...