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Evolutionary theories of technological change and industrial dynamics give primary importance to interaction between heterogeneous agents, endowed with complementary assets and competencies. Accordingly, support to co-operative R&D is central to technology policy, as a mean for increasing system...
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Open source software (OSS) has recently emerged as a new way to organize innovation and product development in the …
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The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in various sorts of interactive learning processes. It questions the merit of the prevailing explanatory model where the realm of tacit knowledge transfer is confined to...
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This paper seeks to broaden our understanding of the concept underlying absorptive capacity at the macro –level, paying particular attention to the growth and development perspectives. We provide definitions of absorptive and technological capacity, external technology flows, productivity...
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services are explored: i) firms with a high level of absorptive capacity are more likely to collaborate on innovation than … firms with a relatively low level of absorptive capacity; ii) given that the firms collaborate on innovation, the main … innovation partner of knowledge intensive service firms with a high level of absorptive capacity is likely to be located further …
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context of developing countries. The main aim of the paper consists in investigating the impact of domestic innovation, via … domestic innovation, a critical component for the development of an absorptive capacity, is a significant determinant of …
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L’innovation ou l’introduction de toutes sortes de nouveautés dans l’économie, devient un réel sujet d’étude dans la …, de sociologie, d’ingénierie, etc. L’innovation constitue l’intersection de trois thématiques clés : la croissance, le … présente les derniers travaux en économie et en management de l’innovation et combine l’analyse théorique avec la description …
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In this paper we explore how innovation and structural change affected economic development in the long run, by which … consumers could purchase the new, higher quality, non necessities, goods and services generated by innovation. In the paper we …
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Innovative nascent entrepreneurs face the problem of obtaining finance, mainly due to information problems. We use new data on capital seeking start-ups allowing distinction between planning stage and early stage. Being innovative does not affect the probability of having external finance in the...
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in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation … low-cost countries: the insourcer/vendor may not only offer cost advantages, but also quality improvement and innovation …
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