Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the literature on two lines of research, corporate governance and innovation, explaining how different internal corporate governance mechanisms may be determinants of business innovation. Design/methodology/approach It explores the...

Nearly three decades have passed since the new knowledge and technologies like genetics and biotechnology have emerged. By passing through various periods in which labor force, resources and capital, each one at a certain time, have been comparative and competitive advantages for a more powerful...

What are the determinants of creativity, novelty, and innovation? In this paper I explore this question through an analysis of data from the Song Explorer podcast, where composers describe how they created a specific song. I mine their accounts to classify their processes into seven different,...

This work is a part of an ongoing research that addresses the issue in strengthening business-academia links and focuses on developing narrow frameworks and guides for effective policies to strengthen business-academia links for transitional economies, based on the case of Uzbekistan. To achieve...

This paper examines the impact of internationalization on the product, process and organizational innovations of Korean service firms. Despite the increasing importance of the service sector and the discrepancies in the natures of the manufacturing and service industries, the...

This paper examines spatial dependence in China's regional innovation using the spatial econometric approach. Dataset covers 30 Chinese provinces for the period from 2000 to 2009. The main findings are as follows: First, an interdependent and simultaneous influential relation in regional...

The generation and implementation of ideas, or knowledge, is crucial for economic performance. We study this process in a model of endogenous growth with frictions. Productivity increases with knowledge, which advances via innovation, and with the exchange of ideas from those who generate them...

The fast growing body of radical innovation research is fragmented and difficult to overlook. We provide an overview of the most cited journals, authors, and publications and conduct a bibliographic coupling to structure the literature landscape. We identified the following research clusters:...

Innovation-driven durable goods markets see substantial changes in quality and available choice sets and subsequent changes of the reference quality in the market over time. Considering the multi-attribute characteristics of these goods, it is important for businesses to identify...

Nearly three decades have passed since the new knowledge and technologies like genetics and biotechnology have emerged. By passing through various periods in which labor force, resources and capital, each one at a certain time, have been comparative and competitive advantages for a more powerful...