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Improving Development Effectiveness through R&D: Dynamic Learning and Evaluation
Fiala, Nathan; Mangan, Cormac - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
Research and development (R&D) is a common process in for-profit organizations. Despite the benefits, it is not routinely practiced in nonprofit organizations, in part because it is difficult to identify the effects of programs that are designed to involve individuals over long periods of time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691846
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Foreign Direct Investment, Competition and Industrial Development in the Host Country: An Analysis for the Case of "White" Certificates
Barrios, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of local firms. We focus on two likely effects of FDI: a competition effect which deters entry of domestic firms and positive market externalities which foster the development of local industry. Using a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068780
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Animal Spirits Meets Creative Destruction
Francois, P.; Lloyd-Ellis, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001
We show how a Schumpeterian process of creative destruction can induce coordination in the timing of entrepreneurial activities across diverse sectors of the economy.Consequently, a multi-sector economy, in which sector-specific, productivity improvements are made by independent, profit-seeking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092449
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Anti-takeover Provisions as a Source of Innovation and Value Creation
Humphery-Jenner, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
-creating takeovers and increase innovation and do not induce agency con icts of managerial entrenchment. This implies that for innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091215
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Optimal Cognitive Distance and Absorptive Capacity
Duysters, Geert; Nooteboom, B.; Vanhaverbeke, W.P.M.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006
In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology …-based alliances.The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped effect of cognitive distance on innovation performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091844
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Cognitive Distance in and Between COP’s and Firms : Where do Exploitation and Exploration take Place, and How are they Connected?
Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007
This paper contributes to the analysis of where and how both exploitation and exploration may take place inside and between communities and organizations. It connects with the discussion of differences between communities of practice and epistemic communities. The analysis allows for differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092178
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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation
Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006
distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092223
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Learning and Innovation in Inter-Organizational Relationships and Networks
Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092744
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Innovation Clusters: Combining Physical and Virtual Links
Preissl, Brigitte - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068838
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Trust, Social Capital and Economic Development
Francois, P.; Zabojnik, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003
Many argue that elements of a society s norms, culture or social capital are central to understanding its development.However, these notions have been difficult to capture in economic models.Here we argue that trustworthiness is the economically relevant component of a society s culture and...
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