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Innovation and Job Creation in a Small Open Economy <br> Evidence from Norwegian Manufacturing Plants 1982-92

Klette, Tor Jakob; Førre, Svein Erik - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995

relationship between job creation and innovation, as measured by R&D investments, in Norwegian manufacturing. We compare job …

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Quality, innovation, differentiation (QID) management and competitiveness in the financial sector: a tool for overcoming financial and banking crises

Zineldin, Mosad - In: Journal of Financial Transformation 26 (2009), pp. 96-103

The purpose of this paper is to examine the integrated role of quality, innovation, and differentiation (QID) on the … improvement, as well as development of banking services differentiation and innovation functions. The paper proposes a holistic … administrative and process innovation that facilitates the technological innovation of banking services. As the specific conditions …

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Urban Dynamism within the Vienna-Bratislava Metropolitan Area: Improving Regional Competitiveness and the Constructed Regional Advantage Concept

Brzica, Danes - In: Managing Global Transitions 7 (2009) 3, pp. 241-258

The paper focuses on the Bratislava metropolitan area (BMA) and its strategic positioning within the broader cross-border metropolitan area (VBMA). It provides a review of the internal/external urban dynamism of bma and other processes ongoing within VBMA. We introduce the constructed regional...

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A Conceptual Model of the Incubation of New Technology-Based Ventures: a Social Capital Perspective

SCILLITOE, Joanne L.; CHAKRABARTI, Alok K. - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 10 (2009) 3, pp. 468-482

Technology incubators are newer organizational forms that are created to support and accelerate the development and success of affiliated ventures, particularly new technology-based ventures. Current literature regarding incubators has suggested that an understanding of the incubation process is...

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Financing SMEs in Europe

Ayadi, Rym; Bernet, Beat; Bovha-Padilla, Simona; Franck, Tom - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum

potential and, in particular when it comes to lack of risk capital, their innovation and R&D activity. Against this background …

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How and Why Do Firms Differ at Start-Up? A Resource-Based Configurational Perspective

HEIRMAN, A.; CLARYSSE, B.T; HAUTE, V. VAN DEN - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2003

This paper studies what initial resource endowments new organizations assemble and the interaction between initial resources, entrepreneurial orientation and environmental factors. More specifically, we study the initial resources of research-based start-ups (RBSUs), which are defined as new...

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Human Capital, Social Capital and Innovation: A Multi-Country Study

DAKHLI, M.; CLERCQ, D. DE - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2003

We examine the effects of two forms of capital, i.e. human capital and social capital, on innovation at the country … relationship between human capital and innovation. We also use previous conceptualisations of social capital as comprising trust … innovation using data from the World Values Survey. Unlike most previous studies that examined human and social capital within a …

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DEFINING KPI SETS FOR INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS — A PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT APPROACH

SAMSONOWA, TATJANA; BUXMANN, PETER; GERTEIS, WOLFGANG - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 13 (2009) 02, pp. 157-176

In today's challenging economic climate it is more important than ever for companies to acquire comparable competitive advantage in their market. While previous research has investigated the performance measurement of R&D as a whole organization, very little research has been done into the...

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INNOVATIVENESS AND INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS: CASE OF RUSSIAN R&D COMPANIES

PODMETINA, DARIA; SMIRNOVA, MARIA; VÄÄTÄNEN, JUHA; … - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 13 (2009) 02, pp. 295-317

explain the structure of the clusters. The main results of the study show the significant impact of innovation activities …

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Network Formation and Strategic Firm Behaviour to Explore and Exploit

Özman, Müge - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 11 (2007) 1, pp. 7-7

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of technological opportunities and knowledge tacitness on inter-firm network formation, under two different industry regimes. In the first regime environment is stable and the aim of firms is to exploit knowledge. In this case, they attribute...

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