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In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …
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Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world relying specifically on the increase and strengthen of its human capital and technological endowments. However, given the presence of localized externalities in the knowledge...
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Regional knowledge spaces are heterogeneous, and the structure of these knowledge spaces can play a significant role in shaping regional economic performances during economic downturns. This paper explores the relationship between a region’s technological profile and its resilience to...
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Following the development of knowledge economies, there has been a rapid expansion of economic analysis of knowledge, both in the context of technological knowledge in particular and the decision theory in general. This paper surveys this literature by identifying the main themes and...
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The value of social network analysis is critically dependent on the comprehensive and reliable identification of actors and their relationships. We compare regional knowledge networks based on different types of data sources, namely, co-patents, co-publications, and publicly subsidized...
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organizational factors that affect firms’ ability to manage innovation this paper asks which innovation processes and entrepreneurial … 2014 mapping companies’ approach to innovation management during the last 10 years. After surveying 102 firms in the first … importance of corporate strategic orientation, highly developed innovation processes and parallel mechanisms for radical …
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Innovation is considered as a main driver of economic growth. Promoting the development of innovation through STI … (science, technology and innovation) policies requires accurate indicators of innovation. Traditional indicators often lack …. In this paper, we propose a novel approach on how to create firm-level innovation indicators at the scale of millions of …
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The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It … describes informal innovative activities and complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) which is based on … research and development. A common demarcation criterion between both modes of innovation is the relevance of experiencebased …
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absorptive capacity (AC) on innovation capability (IC). Research Design & Methods: The hypotheses were tested on a sample of 239 … turn influences business innovation capability. Absorptive capacity is affected mostly by two dimensions of organisational … organisational learning orientation has the strongest impact on product innovation (IC1), a lesser impact on process innovation (ICA2 …
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Innovation is a key factor to increase the competitive advantage for business. When the Innovation is improved by the …: Customer Knowledge Management. So, the aim of this study is to solve: which are the latent factors between Innovation and … the underlying relationships amongst the most relevant variables between Innovation on Customer Knowledge Management, as …
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