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Shifts in Innovation Power to Brazil and India: Insights from the Auto and Software Industries
Lema, Rasmus; Quadros, Ruy; Schmitz, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The global innovation map is changing. Until a few years ago innovation activities were concentrated in the US, Europe … and Japan. Not anymore. The rising powers of China, India and Brazil are encroaching on the innovation stronghold of the … shift in innovation power by concentrating on factors within the rising powers, such as their investment in high …
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Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States
Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25
How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability … education policy and practice into a key component of national innovation strategies: human capital development. Asian countries … are developing an emphasis on innovation and creativity at all levels of education, while the United States continues (via …
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High-tech R&D: How is China doing it?
OK, Süleyman Tuluğ - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 22 (2007) 250, pp. 5-15
This study investigates China’s tedious but patient path to development. Starting with the milestone year 1985, China’s first major step was to completely reform its science and technology (S&T) management system. This was followed up with the implementation of an ambitious long-term...
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Dynamic incentives in organizations: Success and inertia
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - 2010
We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302621
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Dynamic incentives in organizations: Success and inertia
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Karlsruhe … - 2010
We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695029
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Leveraging Resistance to Change and the Skunk Works Model of Innovation
Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2005
We study a situation in which an R&D department promotes the introduction of an innovation that results in costly re … implementing the so-called skunk works model of innovation where the R&D department is isolated from the rest of the organization …
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Resting on Laurels: A Theory of Inertia in Organizations.
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2003
We present a model where the employees of a firm have to search for profitable business projects in a changing environment. Employees who have found a successful project in the past period are shown to be reluctant to search for new and better projects leading to corporate inertia. This reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749389
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …
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Responsible research and innovation : a conceptual contribution to theory and practice of technology management
Nazarko, Lukasz - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 20 (2019), pp. 342-351
The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a popular term as a result of making it a cross … desirability of the innovation process and its products. The work presents a review of the state-of-art scientific literature on … Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) together with a synthesis of theoretical and practical challenges faced by this new …
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