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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...
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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...
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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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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
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Demand Side Absorptive Capacity 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/10012954599
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Small business owners as gatekeepers of knowledge? : personality traits & modes of innovation
Runst, Petrik; Thomä, Jörg - 2020
Previous research has established that certain personality traits represent predictors of start-up activity. We argue that similar cognitive processes that affect entrepreneurship also play a role in firm-level innovativeness. For example, open-ness to novelty can be regarded as a key component...
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The innovation patterns of firms in low and high technology manufacturing sectors in the new member states
Balcerowicz, Ewa; Pe̜czkowski, Marek; … - 2009
For many years, analysis on innovations focused on high technology industries which were treated as synonymous with high competitiveness and growth. New research on low and medium technology industries has revealed that their growth is also based on innovations, though their sources differ from...
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Open Innovation Practices in SMEs and Large Enterprises
Spithoven, André - 2012
organizational boundaries for technological knowledge. We investigate how OI dimensions have an impact on the innovative performance …
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Do Firms Face a Trade-Off between the Quantity and the Quality of Their Inventions?
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2013
This paper presents evidence that firms face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of their research output. The econometric analysis uses survey data on patent applicants at the European Patent Office and addresses the identification problem caused by differences in firms' propensity to...
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