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innovation. This belief was a key principle underlying the Bayh-Dole Act, which gave universities the right to own and license …
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ambiguous impact on innovation. We resolve this tension by using a naturalexperiment stemming from a shock to file …-sharing technology, which led to a sudden increase inpiracy in the early 2000's, to analyze the impact of piracy on innovation in the …
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This paper gives a survey of insights into inter-firm alliances and networks for innovation, from a constructivist … myopia that, for the sake of innovation, needs to be complemented by means of outside relations with other firms, at larger … cognitive distance. Hence the importance of networks for innovation. On the governance side, the paper gives a review of …
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survey Competences pour Innover 1997, we highlight various collective and individual competencies used in an innovation … the insertion of the innovation in the overall strategy of the firm. Competencies permitting to organize and manage the … knowledge production, to develop the innovations and concerning the human resource management practices in an innovation …
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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Concerns have been expressed that gene patents might result in restricted access to research and health care. The exponential growth of patents claiming human DNA sequences might result in patent thickets, royalty stacking and, ultimately, a ‘tragedy of the anti-commons’ in genetics. The...
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We extend theory on private-collective innovation by studying the role of exclusion rights for technology in the … alternative proprietary solutions. We discuss implications of our findings for theories of innovation, particularly appropriation …
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This research paper explores a relatively unknown field, the notion of backsourcing in the context of innovation. It … for innovation-driven business solutions to lead them out of recession and provides reasons for what motivates the … also examined.A range of managerial economics, strategic, management and innovation theories are applied to the …
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Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it a private good, licensing it under the BSD does...
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This study uses data on Canadian establishments to test whether particular organizational structures are correlated with the likelihood of adopting process and product innovations, controlling for the endogeneity of the predictors. We find that establishments with decentralized decision-making,...
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