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Emergence of innovation networks from R&D cooperation with endogenous absorptive capacity
Egbetokun, Abiodun Adeyemi; Savin, Ivan - 2013
This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with endogenous absorptive capacity. The networks emerge as a result of bilateral cooperation over time between firms occupying different locations in the knowledge space. Social...
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Learning about a new technology : pineapple in Ghana
Conley, Timothy G.; Udry, Christopher - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 35-69
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Social experimentation with interdependent and expanding technologies
Garfagnini, Umberto; Strulovici, Bruno - 2014
How do successive, forward-looking agents experiment with interdependent and endogenous technologies? In this paper …
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Information and communications technologies, coordination and control, and the distribution of income
Guy, Frederick (contributor); Skott, Peter (contributor) - 2007
mediated by problems of coordination and control within organizations. In the large corporations of the mid-twentieth century … the information systems of organizations, did improvements in the tools of coordination and control race ahead of the … growing demands of coordination and control. These technological changes have reduced the power of lower-paid employees …
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Green technology adoption and skill reallocation
Nijs, Sacha J. den; Tyros, Stefanos - 2023
The green transition towards a carbon neutral economy constitutes a technological transformation, in which firms need to invest in new, clean technologies. In order to be operated, these new technologies often require a set of technology-specific skills that differ from those that were relevant...
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Chapter 15. Learning in Networks
Goyal, Sanjeev - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 679-727). 2011
We choose between alternatives without being fully informed about the rewards from different courses of action. In making our decisions, we use our own past experience and the experience of others. So the ways in which we interact - our social network - can influence our choices. These choices...
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Industry dynamics and highly qualified labor mobility
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Noseleit, Florian - 2008
The literature on knowledge spillovers offers substantial evidence that workers, as main carriers of knowledge, play a role in the diffusion of knowledge among firms. One of the channels through which knowledge is diffused is the job-to-job mobility of workers. The research question addressed in...
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Knowledge Flows Percolation Model – A New Model for the Relation Between Knowledge and Innovation
Popescul, Daniela - 2013
The present paper proposes a new way of thinking regarding the relation between innovation and knowledge using a Physics-borrowed model, trying to prove whether knowledge resources can "flow" (be percolated) in a network or a grid, in order to be transformed in technological innovation. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074128
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Rapid ICT Change and Workplace Knowledge Obsolescence
Schneider, Henrik - 2015
The ICT (Information and Communication Technology) revolution is surrounding us everywhere. The workplace is no exception. Learning challenges originating from frequent ICT changes cannot be considered just a generational issue as these technologies possess cognitive characteristics that make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708052
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The Evolution of the Global Digital Platform Economy : 1971-2021
Acs, Zoltan J.; Song, Abraham; Szerb, László; … - 2021
The emergence of digital technologies has significantly reduced the economic costs of data—search, storage, computation, transmission—and enabled new economic activities. Over the years, firms able to create a platform-based ecosystem have become a force of “creative destruction.”...
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