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This paper reviews existing innovation metrics at the company-level and country-level, and proposes a system of … signposts of innovation to help executives with a guiding framework and data resources for evaluating and planning innovation … of innovation activities that today's businesses undertake. We also incorporate input from The Conference Board members …
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the unclear relationship between industry structure and Open Innovation. The … Equations.The results show that Open Innovation adoption is positively related to technology complexity and market uncertainty … while it is negatively related to market concentration. Larger firms are more likely to adopt Open Innovation strategies …
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As a first step towards understanding the evolution of small groups in firms, this paper develops and tests a simple decision-theoretical model of research-unit evolution in which, as managers resolve their uncertainty over time, they shut down under-performing units and remove under-performing...
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In 2003, Chesbrough coined the term “open innovation” as a new paradigm for industrial innovation. In this paper, we … innovations — one of the key open innovation practices.This paper provides a comprehensive overview and process model of open … innovation. We classify prior studies in open innovation according to a four-phase process model for inbound open innovation that …
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This paper integrates entrepreneurial reputation into a multi-period model which explores the financing and execution of heterogeneous projects under asymmetric information. We study a model where reputation can be acquired following a history of successful execution but may also be inferred...
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In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the … different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …
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This paper examines the effects of promotion-based tournament incentives for non-CEO executives on corporate innovation … executives, are associated with a higher level of patent quantity and quality, innovation efficiency, and patent importance and … underlying mechanisms through which tournament incentives promote firm innovation. Our paper highlights the importance of inter …
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In this paper, I build a measure of technological distance between firms using the citation- based innovation network …. Consistent with the idea that firms innovate more when there is more past upstream innovation to build on, firms' R&D investments …
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This paper provides highly significant evidence that golden parachutes spur innovation in concentrated … lead to higher levels of innovation quantity and quality through a risk-taking mechanism. The positive effects of … parachutes on innovation are more pronounced when ownership concentration increases for SOEs, as well as when ownership …
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This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms …. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed … focus on two features in multinational production: (i) fundamental innovation is geographically more difficult to transfer …
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