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Research on sustainability and innovation-driven economic growth has exposed a lack of sufficient knowledge in the … governance literature about the appropriate extent of government involvement. This paper focuses on the governance of innovation … the concept of intermediation in the innovation process. The paper employs the Triple Helix model, which describes …
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important conditions for R&D cooperation and innovation. I begin by providing a "beyond-R&D" definition of absorptive capacity … cooperative R&D on incremental product, process and radical innovation. Employing the IAB Establishment Panel Survey on about 1200 … German innovation-based establishments during 2007-2011, findings demonstrate that adoption of employment practices …
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This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...
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In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...
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The first volume of this Series is on The Role of Government / Academia / Industry in Building Innovation-Based Cities …
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The performance of clusters has been linked in several studies to their historical and geographical contexts as well as to the drivers that shape the competitive strength of nations. Among these drivers, the human factor and universities play a key role in the competitiveness of nations, as well...
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This study is the first to examine the role of discussants in academic knowledge production. Comparing articles of similar quality with andwithout discussants,we find that having a discussant increases a paper's probability of publication in prestigious journals, but not its citation count....
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When preparing a research article, academics engage in informal intellectual collaboration by asking their colleagues for feedback. This collaboration gives rise to a social network between academics. We study whether informal intellectual collaboration with an academic who is more central in...
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governmentality). In addition, the regional Triple Helix context as a prerequisite for stakeholder engagement, enhancing innovation …
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Research at the intersection of industries, regions, cities, clusters and economic growth has populated the academic literature with new concepts such as place-based policies and strategies. The concept of ‘place management’ originates from the concept of urban development, alongside its...
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