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The Impact of Innovation Off-shoring on Organizational Adaptability

Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schubert, Torben - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms’ ability to adapt its … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for the …

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Old is Gold? The Effects of Employee Age on Innovation and the Moderating Effects of Employment Turnover

Schubert, Torben; Andersson, Martin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

impacts negatively on product innovation activities (both in terms of propensity and success), b) that the effect of em …-ployee staying rate (measured by the share of employees that remain in the firm from one year to the next) on innovation follows an …

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Technological competencies and firm performance: Analyzing the importance of internal and external competencies

Grillitsch, Markus; Nilsson, Magnus - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between technological competencies (TC) and firm performance. Theoretically, the importance of TC is well established and widely accepted. Therefore, it is surprising that a number of empirical studies have been unable to confirm a substantial positive...

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Towards a Richer Specification of the Exploration/Exploitation Trade-off: Hidden Knowledge-based Aspects and Empirical Results for a Set of Large R&D-Performing Firms

Schubert, Torben; Neuhaeusler, Peter - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2012

international panel data set of large R&D performing firms, we can show empirically that a firm’s innovation activities affect its …

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Innovation in peripheral regions: Do collaborations compensate for a lack of local knowledge spillovers?

Grillitsch, Markus; Nilsson, Magnus - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014

It is widely accepted that firms in peripheral regions benefit to a lesser extent from local knowledge spillovers than firms located in agglomerations or industrial clusters. This paper investigates the extent to which innovative firms in peripheral regions compensate for the lack of access to...

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Clusters in Time and Space: Understanding the Growth and Transformation of Life Science in Scania

Moodysson, Jerker; Nilsson, Magnus; Svensson Henning, Martin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008

This paper deals with the growth and development of the Scanian life science cluster by revisiting a previous empirical study in the light of new theoretical findings. It is argued that the transformation of the Scanian cluster must be evaluated with reference to the general development of the...

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Is the University Model an Organizational Necessity? Scale and Agglomeration Effects in Science

Brandt, Tasso; Schubert, Torben - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2012

In this paper we argue that the emergence of the dominant model of university organization, which is characterized by a large agglomeration of (often loosely affiliated) many small research groups, might have an economic explanation that relates to the features of the scientific production...

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Implementing an R&D Strategy without Prior R&D-Experience Recruitment as a Source of R&D-related Routines and Capabilities?

Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Schubert, Torben - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

Evolutionary economic theorizing and related approaches explain persistent heterogeneity in R&D activities between firms with persistent inter-firm differences in R&D-related routines and capabilities. Emphasizing the importance experiential learning leading to pathdependence of R&D strategies,...

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