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Innovation, in all its forms, has become a central activity in companies. Moreover, innovation is considered as the … engine of growth in several countries. The main objective of this paper is to study the determinants of innovation (product … impact on all types of innovation. Nevertheless, small firms, sole proprietorships, and firms managed by women are found to …
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Innovation, in all its forms, has become a central activity in companies. Moreover, innovation is considered as the … engine of growth in several countries. The main objective of this paper is to study the determinants of innovation (product … impact on all types of innovation. Nevertheless, small firms, sole proprietorships, and firms managed by women are found to …
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Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …
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Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
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firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation … a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity …
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The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...
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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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