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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry
Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - 2012
Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing new. What is new is studying how this relationship fares in latecomer economic contexts such as Nigeria, and that is the focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation...
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Does Partner Type Matter in R&D Collaboration for Environmental Innovation?
Pippel, Gunnar - 2013
firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … of R&D collaboration partners is important for the environmental innovation performance. Firm-level data from 2 …,337 German service and manufacturing firms are used in the regression analysis. The results suggest that R&D collaboration with …
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Industry-science connections in agriculture: Do public science collaborations and knowledge flows contribute to firm-level agricultural research productivity?
Toole, Andrew A.; King, John L. - 2011
Prior research shows long-run productivity growth in agriculture is associated with increases in the stock of public scientific knowledge and private patented inventions. However, private inventions may be a function of the stock of public knowledge. In this paper, we examine the possibility...
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Collaboration for innovation in services
Hipp, Christiane - 2009
The research was motivated by the importance of inter-firm collaboration within service innovation. Inter …-firm collaboration covers a broad range of organizational combinations of various size and motivations in various levels of formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307453
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Effective logistics alliance design and management
Brekalo, Lisa; Albers, Sascha - 2015
Purpose: We argue that the productive analyses of logistics alliances in the literature have led to a multitude of heterogeneous contributions. These should be consolidated and systematized in order to (a) synthesize the existing findings in a meaningful way and guide future research for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348245
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Systemic aspects of R&D policy: Subsidies for R&D collaborations and their effects on private R&D
Engel, Dirk; Rothgang, Michael; Eckl, Verena - 2015
higher for business and business collaboration projects than for science and business collaboration projects; (iii) R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404812
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Industry-Academe Collaboration for Research and Development
Vea, Reynaldo B. - 2014
manifestation of this overall weakness, industry-academe collaboration in R&D is also feeble.This paper recommends the … overall improvement in R&D capability, R&D collaboration and technology commercialization will also be enhanced. …
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Strong Ties in a Small World
van der Leij, Marco; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325166
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Sharing Information through Delegation and Collaboration
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2004
explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325390
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Uudistaminen ja yhteistyöverkostot Suomen teollisuudessa: Havaintoja yrityskyselystä
Nikulainen, Tuomo; Salmi, Julia - 2012
The renewal of Finnish manufacturing companies has often been addressed through their innovative activities. But companies do renew themselves in many other ways. This report takes into account, in addition to innovative activities, product and service range, supply and distribution channels,...
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