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innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …
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markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an … inverse U-shaped relationship between patent strength and growth: moderate levels of patent protection can stimulate growth …
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diffusion decreases both in technology imitation among innovators and in technology adoption by entrepreneurs. Patents are an … important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an inverse U-shaped relationship between patent strength and growth: moderate … levels of patent protection can stimulate growth, but strong protection leads to rising market power and slower growth. …
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Knowledge integration, which facilitates interactions between R&D and other functions within a firm value chain, and patenting are both reckoned to increase the returns to R&D and firm performance. However, the combined effect of a joint use is in many ways ambiguous since those strategies...
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This paper analyses the influence of in-house R&D and external knowledge acquisition on the total factor productivity (TFP) of listed Chinese firms for the time period 2001-2010. We find a quantitatively important positive effect of in-house R&D. The achieved level of technological...
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of tacit knowledge codification, and to illuminate the role of intellectual property in the firm. Patents, for example … ameliorating the risks associated with loss of tacit knowledge. Thus, aside from the usual justifications for patents in terms of … know-how will always remain in tacit form, unpatented and uncodified. As with all codes, the use of patents assumes an …
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This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting … patent protection and the long-term retention of qualified personnel relates to different company-specific factors. Moreover …, the interplay between patents and employee retention and their mutual interdependencies with other appropriation methods …
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This paper has as objective to approach the theme "Microeconomics of Knowledge" and having the African case as reference. We concluded that, in general analysis, South Africa and Tunisia are the countries of the selected with better performance in microeconomics of knowledge, and Angola, Chad...
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This study aims to figure out the relationship between the theory of open innovation and organizational proximity. Open … innovation has been the main research target for SMEs who want to grow faster when they have a possible network with other … U-shape relationship between both the breadth and depth of external knowledge and innovation performance, and that …
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The 2018 Global Innovation Index ranks Pakistan 118 out of 126 in innovation. One of the main reasons why developing … contemporary hurdles that lead to manufacturing firms' low agility and innovation performance. Based on the theory of dynamic … and innovation performance. However, in the presence of a diversified organizational culture (i.e., flexibility …
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