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Theoretical and empirical work on innovation and firm survival has produced varied and often conflicting findings. In … this paper, we draw on Schumpeterian models of competition and innovation and stochastic models of firm dynamics to … demonstrate that the conflicting findings may be due to linear specifications of the innovation-survival relationship. We …
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"Learning-by-doing" is usually identified as a process whereby performance increases with experience in production. The paper investigates different patterns of "learning by doing", studying learning curves at product level. Cost-quantity relationships differ a lot across products belonging to...
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Accessing external finance for innovation is notoriously difficult. We study the effect of financial constraints on the … probability of conducting process innovation, while also considering the role of past innovating experience. Theoretically, we … show a firm’s optimal process innovation decision is a function of its previous decision, financial constraints, and a set …
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This paper evaluates the impact of two public programs, FONTEC and FONDEF, aimed at fostering innovation in Chilean …
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words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor entering (leaving) the firm, the more the firm’s innovation performance … pharmaceuticals and mechanical engineering such that the mobility of an inventor to a firm increases its innovation performance but … the mobility of an inventor from a firm does not affect its innovation performance. We further find that particularly …
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Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web … findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it …
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New product development (NPD) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) virtual team has not been systematically investigated in developing countries. Literatures have shown no significant differences between traditional NPD and virtual NPD in general. New product development especially for...
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Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment … achieve innovations of high quality. Depending on the type of industry, the type of business, the type of innovation and the … strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and innovation is …
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Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive … accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web … findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753083
Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive … innovation and the strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and … innovation are organized. Nowadays, shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working in innovation has become more …
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