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Innovation, Survival and Performance of Canadian Manufacturing Plants
Baldwin, John R.; Gu, Wulong - 2009
This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market … share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. The paper presents a model that examines the effect of innovation … plant performance both before and after the introduction of an innovation. We find strong evidence that labour productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208748
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Thirty years of entrepreneurship research published in top journals : analysis of citations, co-citations and themes
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Reis, Nuno R.; Miranda, Rui - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 5 (2015) 17, pp. 1-22
Entrepreneurship research has increased markedly over the past three decades. In this paper we conduct a large scale survey of the literature beyond a subjective perspective on what entrepreneurship research has comprised. We investigate what have been the intellectual structure and the...
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When the innovator fails to capture rents from innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013
innovation, the business and social ties connecting firms deepen the hazards associated to the appropriation of rents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011140921
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Impact of the types of clusters on the innovation output and the appropriation of rents from innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013
The ability to generate innovations and capture the rents from innovation are important for firms’ competitive … innovation output, the knowledge flows among the clustered firms and, ultimately, on who captures the rents from innovation. The … rents from innovation. Extant research has noted that the social and business networks binding firms in clusters are …
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Open and closed industry clusters: The social structure of innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando A. Ribeiro - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2008
In this paper we discuss knowledge and innovation in clusters and the benefits of clustering from a knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005736309
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Innovation : The Key to Success in Small Firms
Baldwin, John R. - 2014
This study examines the differences in strategies and activities pursued by a sample of more-successful and less-successful group of growing small-and medium-sized enterprises. Amongst other matters, it examines different functional strategies--the importance of management, human resource...
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Business Strategies in Innovative and Non-Innovative Firms in Canada
Baldwin, John R.; Johnson, Joanne - 2000
This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies in marketing, finance, production, management and human resources and asks whether there are key areas in which the strategies being followed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030744
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Technology Use and Industrial Transformation : Empirical Perspectives
Baldwin, John R.; Diverty, Brent; Sabourin, David - 1998
This study examines technology use in Canada's manufacturing sector and how a set of technology-using manufacturing establishments performed relative to non-users. Data originates from a recent Statistics Canada survey, asking manufacturing firms about their use of 22 advanced manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078850
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Innovation Capabilities : Technology Use, Productivity Growth and Business Performance: Evidence from Canadian Technology Surveys
Baldwin, John R. - 2015
This paper summarizes the results of several research studies conducted by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada that investigate the impact of advanced technology use on business performance. These studies combine establishment-level survey data on advanced technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039511
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Innovation Capabilities : The Knowledge Capital Behind the Survival and Growth of Firms
Baldwin, John R. - 2013
This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process of competencies that arise from investments in intangible assets. The program has consisted of two parts. First, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on...
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