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focus on manufacturing, both in the literature and in the way enterprise surveys are designed. -- innovation ; services …, that would encompass both manufacturing ad services. Meeting this challenge will, however, be difficult, given the strong …Services dominate all advanced economies but service innovations are still an underresearched topic. One of the reasons …
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: products and processes, manufacturing and services, as well as input indicators, intermediaries and outputs. However …Innovation can be a source of competitive advantage for companies, either through the improvement of methods and … techniques capable of generating new products or services, or perfecting existing ones. Along these lines, it is particularly …
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Understanding the factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics and … strategic management of innovation. Progress on this topic has been inhibited by difficulties in measuring the location and … movement of innovation in ideas space. To date, most efforts at measuring the direction of innovation rely on curated …
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This paper reviews the leading scoring systems for measuring innovation capabilities on a global scale providing …-led innovation, justified with the mid-twentieth century scientific believe, that universities merely supply labour markets, and … Economy brings in a stronger system view with the role of institutions and late 20th century believes. The EU Innovation …
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Corporate innovation propels both company performance and economic growth. Yet, measuring corporate innovation proves …, patent citations and new product announcements. I posit that each of these signs of corporate innovation provides a noisy … eliminates useful information, suggesting that all of the observable signals about corporate innovation should be included in …
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A growing empirical literature uses patent citations as a quality-adjusted measure for innovation, despite concerns … useful quality-adjusted measure for innovation. The citing practices of patent attorneys and examiners, however, also …
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In many industries, competition is far from perfect and managerial efficiency (or a fixed cost) varies among firms. However, traditional measurement of technological progress assumes perfect competition and no fixed cost. This paper incorporates these two factors in the technological-progress...
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A simple model of the development of technology is presented. This model, in a broad analogy with evolutionary ecology of parasites, within a theoretical framework of Generalized Darwinism, can explain vital characteristics of technological advances and technological evolution. In particular,...
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Innovation is widely considered as the main determinant of long-term economic growth. Despite this consensus, it is … critical examination of innovation indicators and measures of the economic impact of innovation. All available innovation … indicators fall short of measuring innovation and its economic effect. However, the future could be more promising as enterprises …
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