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Absorptive capacity, innovation cooperation and human-capital : evidence from 3 European countries
Franco, Chiara; Marzucchi, Alberto; Montresor, Sandro - 2012
The paper aims at extending the analysis of the firm's absorptive capacity (AC) by taking stock of its manifold nature. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending on the kind of partner. Human capital is claimed...
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Does internal and external research and development affect innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises? : evidence from India and Pakistan
Naqeeb-ur-Rehman - 2016
performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India and Pakistan. Micro-level data was obtained for 3,492 Indian and …
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The trade-off between absorptive capacity and appropriability of the returns to innovation effort
Crowley, Frank; Jordan, Declan - 2018
A key concept in the economics of innovation is the 'public good' nature of knowledge. This generates a tension between incentivizing knowledge production by allowing knowledge creators appropriate the economic benefits and encouraging its diffusion to enhance the social return to knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020056
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Software Development and Innovation ‒ Exploring the Software Shift in Innovation in Swedish Firms
Andersson, Martin; Kusetogullari, Anna; Wernberg, Joakim - 2020
Several scholars as well as industry professionals have claimed that there is a "software-biased shift" in the nature and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide array of industries. Empirical firm-level evidence of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615415
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Software development and innovation - exploring the software shift in innovation in Swedish firms
Andersson, Martin; Kusetogullari, Anna; Wernberg, Joakim - 2020
Several scholars as well as industry professionals have claimed that there is a "software-biased shift" in the nature and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide array of industries. Empirical firm-level evidence of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240553
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Innovation in green energy technologies and the economic performance of firms
Kruse, Jürgen - 2016
on the economic performance of firms. My analysis is conducted on a panel of 8,619 patenting firms including 968 green … energy patenters from 22 European countries over the period 2003 to 2010. I measure economic firm performance in terms of … innovation has a statistically significant negative impact on economic firm performance. In contrast, nongreen energy innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442945
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Managerial skills, technology adaptation and firm performance : mediating role of process innovation and product innovation
Asghar, Nabila; Khattak, Amira; Danish, Muhammad Hassan; … - In: Cogent business & management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-18
The main aim of every organization is to improve performance and productivity, but this is only possible with efficient … managerial skills and technology adaptation on firm performance and productivity through the mediation channel of process … the productivity and performance of firms. The present research is focused on the implementation of new technology and …
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Innovation capabilities and firm labor productivity
Peeters, Carine; van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2004
This study relies on a Cobb-Douglas production function to assess the relationship between the development of innovation capabilities by firms and their labor productivity. Intra-organizational capabilities relate to firms’ corporate culture and work organization, generation of innovative...
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The trade-off between absorptive capacity and appropriability of the returns to innovation effort
Crowley, Frank; Jordan, Declan - 2018
A key concept in the economics of innovation is the 'public good' nature of knowledge. This generates a tension between incentivizing knowledge production by allowing knowledge creators appropriate the economic benefits and encouraging its diffusion to enhance the social return to knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992160
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Absorptive Capacity of Demand in Sports Innovation
Almudi, Isabel - 2017
We propose a stylized and tractable Neo-Schumpeterian model of sectorial transformations in which demand side knowledge constraints inhibit innovation diffusion and industrial change, causing structural instability. Evolutionary competition in the model implies that innovation can overshoot the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953153