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An Examination of Technology Strategies for the Integration of Bioinformatics in Pharmaceutical R&D Processes
Hopkins, Michael M. - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 1999
, showing how barriers to innovation and limiting steps within the R&D process are changing as a result of bioinformatics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588798
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Remixing Cinema: The case of the Brighton Swarm of Angels
Cassarino, Irene; Geuna, Aldo - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766979
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Knowledge about knowledge since Nelson & Winter: a mixed record
Pavitt, Keith - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002
Progress in our understanding of the role of knowledge in the economy, based on Nelson and Winter's book published in 1982, has been mixed. It has been greatest when their concepts have been enriched by empirical evidence, often coming from outside evolutionary economics. It has been least when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824792
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Patterns of innovative activities in countries of Central and Eastern Europe: An analysis based on comparison of innovation surveys
Radosevic, Slavo - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 1999
This paper compares several innovation surveys from the countries of central and eastern Europe (CEECs) with the first … EU innovation survey. Based on the innovation survey data it discusses the changes in the innovation activities in … in innovation activities come from differences in development levels. Similarities in innovation activities come from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824812
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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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The Impact of an Associative Strategy (the PROFO Program) on Small and Medium Enterprises in Chile
Benavente, Jose Miguel; Crespi, Gustavo - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003
The main objective of this article is to determine if associative strategies followed in Chile have had any impact on the enhancement of productive performance of Chilean SMEs firms. In order to do that, the estimate of the impact is approached using the benchmark given by Social Experiment but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766970
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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