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The aim of this paper is to add new findings to the knowledge based view of the firm, where the cross-learning ability …, especially in the present knowledge-based economy, where the necessity to respond effectively to frequent external shock (demand … in the determination of firm's performance is presented. Secondly, a missing ring in the knowledge based view of the firm …
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skilled graduates in small, know-how-based firms can be instrumental in spurring innovation and upgrading changes in the firms … qualifications that can contribute positively. Graduates with other academic qualifications also hold potential for innovation and …
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various - societal - modes of the construction of new scientific knowledge and competence, we are led to analyse …
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For academic spin-offs I analyze the length of time between the founder's leaving of academia and the establishment of his firm. Technology transfer can take place even years after leaving the mother institution. A duration analysis reveals that a longer time-lag is caused by the necessity of...
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The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms’ ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...
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We outline an Austrian approach to economic organization based on the entrepreneur and the Austrian idea of capital as heterogeneous and time-dimensioned, tow themes associated with Israel Kirzner's contributions. We provide a novel interpretation of capital heterogeneity based on the notion of...
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argued that there is a need for a new type of knowledge and learning oriented Keynesianism in order to get close to the kind …
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It is increasingly realized that knowledge is the most important resource and that learning is the most important … process in the economy. Sometimes this is expressed by coining the current era as characterised by a ‘knowledge based economy …’. But this concept might be misleading by indicating that there is one common knowledge base on which economic activities …
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seems important to explain how individual and collective memorisation occurs, so as to grasp how knowledge can be converted … into routines. Although memorisation mechanisms imply a degree of durability, our procedural and declarative knowledge, and … dimension of these memorisation processes, with the Anderson’s distinction between procedural knowledge and declarative …
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within a field of knowledge or activity. The localized learning argument consists of two distinct yet related elements. One …
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