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ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICT-intensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more...
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This paper examines empirically whether firms located in strong industrial clusters are more innovative than firms located outside these regions. The study performs a firm-level analysis for two countries: Italy and the United Kingdom. European patent data for the period 1990-98 are used as...
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Taking in hand the two sides (i.e. cognitive and risk-bearing) of authority in design and production in complex tasks, this paper aims to give a first look at shifts in the locus of authority in the aviation electronics—or avionics—industry. Relying on patent and joint ventures data, we...
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During the last 40 years, economics of innovation has emerged as a distinct area of enquiry at the crossing of the …, elaboration and evolution of different fields of analysis in economic theory, innovation is viewed as a complex, path …
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advancement of our understanding of economic evolution, and the associated process of innovation. In particular, we discuss why it … knowledge, as the analytical foundation of evolutionary economic modelling. …
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of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples … drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised countries, the paper suggests that such an analytical approach …
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Engineering knowledge has an important component (the tacit dimension) that is acquired, developed, and enhanced …
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distinctive case because their 'product' is essentially knowledge, and in many cases this knowledge is partly tacit and … has a bearing on the creation and deployment of knowledge. Therefore, from the perspective of a service firm, contractual … arrangements need to be aligned with the nature of its knowledge base. Knowledge base is characterized here by the firm's service …
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In this paper, the profitability of German car manufacturing firms is related to different indicators for the knowledge … information about the mode of exit of the firms is exploited to construct a latent variable for profitability. Knowledge is … knowledge is significantly positively related to firm profitability and that each of the three knowledge forms exerts an …
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. Examples are public research that yields knowledge spillovers and government contracts that broker new research. Using this …
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