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Empirical Tests of Optimal Cognitive Distance

Wuyts, S.H.K.; Colombo, M.; Dutta, S.; Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of optimal cognitive distance , proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings.Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...

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Has the Dutch Miracle Come to an End?

van Ours, Jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

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How far do They Reach? The Localization of Industrial and Academic Knowledge Spillovers in the Netherlands

Beugelsdijk, S.; Cornet, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

proximity in innovation in the Netherlands, a small country.We find that proximity does not promote industrial knowledge …

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Strategic Investment Under Uncertainty : Merging Real Options with Game Theory

Huisman, Kuno; Kort, Peter; Pawlina, G.; Thijssen, J.J.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

As becomes apparent from the standard text books in industrial organization (cf.Tirole, 1988, The Theory of Industrial Organization), the analysis of the e.ects of uncertainty within this field is yet underdeveloped.This paper shows that the new theory of strategic real options can be used to...

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Strategic Resource Extraction And Substitute Development

Michielsen, T.O. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract We analyze a dynamic game between a buyer and a seller of an exhaustible resource. The seller chooses resource supply; the buyer can pay a fixed cost to invent a perfect substitute for the resource at any time. In closed-loop equilibrium, the buyer adopts the substitute when the...

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Innovation, growth and welfare-improving cycles

Francois, P.; Shi, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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Density and Strength of Ties in Innovation Networks : An Analysis of Multi-Media and Biotechnology

Gilsing, V.A.; Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

and strength of ties in innovation networks.We study both exploration and exploitation networks in the Dutch multimedia …

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Optimal Cognitive Distance and Absorptive Capacity

Duysters, Geert; Nooteboom, B.; Vanhaverbeke, W.P.M.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology …-based alliances.The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped effect of cognitive distance on innovation performance …

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Entrepreneurial Roles Along a Cycle of Discovery

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

are played when and by whom.In this article, roles are attributed to different stages of innovation and organizational … development.A central theme is the relation between discontinuity, in radical innovation (exploration), and continuity, in … towards radical innovation.Parallel to this there are processes of organisational development. …

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Cognitive Distance in and Between COP’s and Firms : Where do Exploitation and Exploration take Place, and How are they Connected?

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper contributes to the analysis of where and how both exploitation and exploration may take place inside and between communities and organizations. It connects with the discussion of differences between communities of practice and epistemic communities. The analysis allows for differences...

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