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The Sustainable Development of Industry Clusters : Emergent Knowledge Networks and Socio Complex Adaptive Systems
Nousala, Susu - 2014
, small, medium enterprises (SMEs) are vital players within the steel industry supply chain. The Australian SME steel housing … the lens of scalability of a socio complex adaptive system, SME development becomes arguably the most significant player … with regards to industry cluster development. By starting with SME development it's possible to build an understanding of a …
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SMEs and knowledge-capital formation in innovation networks : a review of literature
Laperche, Blandine; Liu, Zeting - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 2 (2013), pp. 1-16
To innovate, firms constitute a ‘knowledge-capital’, defined as a set of information and knowledge produced, acquired and used in the value creation process. In this paper, we focus on small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) and study their ability to develop their own knowledge-capital as...
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Innovation in small and medium-sized companies : knowledge integration mechanisms and the role of top managers' networks
Fliaster, Alexander; Golly, Tanja - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 2, pp. 125-147
Past research has revealed that knowledge integration is an important prerequisite for the success of new product development. For this reason, companies deploy a number of formal mechanisms to foster integration across multiple functions and hierarchical levels. In many SMEs, however, such...
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Innovationskooperationen und Wissenstransfer von Unternehmen im Raum Jena
Kaps, Katharina; Pfeil, Silko; Sauer, Thomas; Stoetzer, … - 2011 - [Online-Ausg.]
. -- Innovationskooperation ; Wissenstransfer ; Kooperationspartner ; Transferkanal ; Innovation ; KMU … Wissenstransferaktivitäten von schwerpunktmäßig kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) in der Region Jena. Die Studie konzentriert sich auf drei …-sized enterprises (SME) in and closely around Jena (Thuringia). The study focuses on three aspects: How do the different channels used …
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Emerging Autopoietic Communities – Scalability of Knowledge Transfer in Complex Systems
Nousala, Susu; Hall, William P. - 2011
Knowledge-based communities are important but poorly understood systems for helping enterprises maintain their organizational integrity and address organizational imperatives. Based on an autopoietic theory of organization, we examine the emergence and development of knowledge-based communities...
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Knowledge spillovers and absorptive capacity - institutional evidence from the 'German Mittelstand'
Proeger, Till - 2017 - Revised version: November 2017
Recent extensions to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) show that the successful commercialization of new knowledge by incumbents depends on their absorptive capacities. For policy-makers focusing on increasing incumbents’ innovative performance, the systematic reduction...
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Knowledge spillovers and absorptive capacity - institutional evidence from the 'German Mittelstand'
Proeger, Till - 2017
Recent extensions to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) show that the successful commercialization of new knowledge by incumbents depends on their absorptive capacities. For policy-makers focusing on increasing incumbents' innovative performance, the systematic reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011713037
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The role of firms' location on persistency of various types of innovation : to be presented in Uddevalla Symposium 2016 : Theme: VIII: Knowledge, firms and locations in the era of...
Tavassoli, Sam; Karlsson, Charlie - 2016
This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 and 2012. On the one hand, we distinguish...
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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMEs : Creation of Knowledge but No Creation of Value
Winters, Rob - 2013
This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and process innovation and sales growth of high technology SMEs. Innovation networks are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. knowledge creation. One exception is the negative effect of innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711320
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Innovationskooperationen und Wissenstransfer von Unternehmen im Raum Jena
Kaps, Katharina; Pfeil, Silko; Sauer, Thomas; Stoetzer, … - 2011
Wissenstransferaktivitäten von schwerpunktmäßig kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) in der Region Jena. Die Studie konzentriert sich auf drei …-sized enterprises (SME) in and closely around Jena (Thuringia). The study focuses on three aspects: How do the different channels used … contacts face-to-face areessential for the success of these relations. Although the regional SME collaborate with numerous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304809