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Barriers to Innovation faced by Manufacturing Firms in Portugal: How to overcome it?

Silva, Maria; Leitão, João; Raposo, Mário - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper aims to identify the barriers to innovation that influence the innovation capability of Portuguese … industrial firms. The literature review about innovation makes use of two references approaches: (i) the systemic; and (ii) the … networks and inter-organizational relationships. The database is obtained through the Community Innovation Survey II (CIS II …

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Market Structure and Environmental Innovation

Montero, Juan-Pablo - In: Journal of Applied Economics V (2002) November, pp. 293-325

This paper studies firms’ incentives to invest in environmental R&D under different market structures (Cournot and Bertrand) and environmental policy instruments (emission standards, taxes, tradable permits and auctioned permits). Because of market strategic effects, R&D incentives vary widely...

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Performance à l'exportation et innovation technologique dans les PME manufacturières indépendantes

Bourgault, Mario; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1994

Small and medium enterprises have strengthened their importance during the last decades in most industrialized countries, including the United States, Germany, Japan and Canada. The province of Quebec makes no exception as firms of less than 200 employees generate a substantial portion of its...

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Innovative Efforts as Determinants of Export Performance: The Case of Specialized Suppliers

Bourgault, Mario; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

This paper presents empirical evidence on the relationship between innovative efforts and performance on international markets for the specific case of small firms acting as specialized suppliers. In addition to tangible efforts such as R&D expenditures, intangible efforts are also considered....

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Comparaison des politiques de rémunération en fonction des stratégies organisationnelles

Chênevert, Denis; Tremblay, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

Human resource practices and especially compensation are the elements most likely to promote attraction and retention of competent workers. However firms can choose between a mix of compensation policies and practices. The existant literature suggests that these choices are influenced by either...

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The Allocation of Resources to Cooperative and Noncooperative R&D

Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

The precompetitive R&D literature has viewed cooperative and noncooperative R&D as substitutes. In this paper a more realistic approach is taken, where both cooperative and noncooperative R&D are performed in parallel. In the first stage firms determine the optimal investments in both types of...

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Catching-Up, Crisis and Industrial Upgrading. Evolutionary Aspects of Technological Learning in Korea's Electronics Industry

Ernst, Dieter - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

This paper addresses a puzzle: How is it possible that a country that has established a broad, export-oriented industrial base at record speed, remains vulnerable to the vicissitudes of international finance and currency markets? I argue that the Korean model that was tremendously successful for...

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The Performance of Different Organisations under Different Marked Conditions An Empirical Analysis of the Organisational Structure and Performance of 1900 Danish Firms [Revised Feb...

Kristensen, Frank Skov - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997

learning organisational forms in some parts of the economy, characterised by innovation turbulence and cumulativeness, are best …

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Organisational Innovation, Governance Structure and Innovative Capacity In British and French Industry

Lorenz, Edward - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1999

This study makes use of the results of a postal questionnaire sent to a sample of large private sector companies in Britain and France to address two key issues in the new institutional analysis of the firm. The first is the way the institutional environment supports and constrains the design of...

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Innovation, Ownership and Profitability

Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen; Du, Jun - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing … the link between innovation and profits separately for innovators and non-innovators, and for indigenous innovators and … non-innovators and externally-owned plants. We also consider the determinants of innovation over the distribution of plant …

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