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When local interaction does not suffice: Sources of firm innovation in urban Norway
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2011
The geographical sources of innovation of firms have been hotly debated. While the traditional view is that physical … survey of the level of innovation of 1604 firms of more than 10 employees located in the five largest Norwegian city … innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838842
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What are service sector innovations and how do we measure them?
Szczygielski, Krzysztof - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2011
Services dominate all advanced economies but service innovations are still an underresearched topic. One of the reasons are definitional and measurement difficulties. The goal of the paper is to highlight those by reviewing recent literature and to assess the current state of knowledge and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838848
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THE LINK BETWEEN INNOVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY IN ESTONIAN SERVICE SECTOR
Masso, Jaan; Vahter, Priit - Majandusteaduskond, Tartu Ülikool - 2011
The emerging literature on the characteristics of innovation processes in the service sector has paid relatively little … attention to the links between innovation and productivity. In this paper we investigate how the innovation … of equations for innovation expenditures, innovation output, productivity and exports. We use data from the community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838928
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Environmental Regulation, Business Innovation and International Competitiveness - Regolazione ambientale, innovazioni d’impresa e competitività internazionale
Li, Hong; Huang, Chengming; Yang, Bill Z. - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 64 (2011) 1, pp. 115-128
This paper develops a Cournot model to study how environmental regulatory policies affect the international competitiveness of firms. The tradable baseline-and-credit emission permit is employed as the primary means of environmental regulation. It provides a theoretical support for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852067
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Patent Pools and Product Development
Jeitschko, Thomas; Zhang, Nanyun - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2011
The conventional wisdom is that the formation of patent pools is welfare enhancing when patents are complementary, since the pool avoids a double-marginalization problem associated with independent licensing. The focus of this paper is on (downstream) product development and commercialization on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852074
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The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness?
Ambec, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A.; Elgie, Stewart; Lanoie, Paul - 2011
Twenty years ago, Harvard Business School economist and strategy professor Michael Porter stood conventional wisdom about the impact of environmental regulation on business on its head by declaring that well-designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. The traditional view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852123
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Una propuesta de conceptualización del proceso de innovación en los servicios turísticos desde la visión evolucionista de la firma
Rodríguez Torres, Federico; Bedolla Beserril, Josefina - In: Revista Nicolaita de Estudios Económicos V (2010) 1, pp. 89-109
This article provides the theoretical framework of innovation in services and especially tourist services. A review of … activities of the innovation process in enterprises of tourist services. …
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Complementarities and Macroeconomics: Poisson Games
Makris, Miltiadis - Business School, University of Exeter - 2006
In many situations in macroeconomics strategic complementarities arise, and agents face a coordination problem. An important issue, from both a theoretical and a policy perspective, is equilibrium uniqueness. We contribute to this literature by focusing on the macroeconomic aspect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852495
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War and Creativity: Solving the War-Art Puzzle for Classical Music Composition
BOROWIECKI, Karol Jan - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2011
The relationship between conflict and artistic output is ambiguous. This paper proposes an explanation for the contradiction in research, which we term the war-art puzzle. We employ a global sample of 115 prominent classical composers born after 1800 and link their annual productivity with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852526
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SUPPLIER INVOLVEMENT IN INNOVATION PROCESSES: A TAXONOMY
AUNE, TINA B.; GRESSETVOLD, ESPEN - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 15 (2011) 01, pp. 121-143
For many companies, suppliers play an important role in innovation processes. One key issue concerns the degree of … presents a taxonomy of supplier involvement in innovation processes. The empirical data consists of a case study of Norske Skog … in innovation processes. The taxonomy may be useful in initiatives to increase awareness of the organisation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852571