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This paper inquires how the concept of the "learning economy" can be applied to the requirements of developing … countries. The main purpose is to develop an analytical framework to better understand how learning and capability formation can … conditions developing countries can use this set of generic technologies to improve their learning capabilities. We argue that …
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. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an internal learning by searching strategy, while noncumulative firms adopt … an external learning strategy aiming at absorbing external sources of knowledge. The results show that the co …
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Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater...
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Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming …, this paper sheds light on the various sources of firm learning, investment and collaboration and their relative importance …
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The aim of this paper is to add new findings to the knowledge based view of the firm, where the cross-learning ability …. Collective, non formal - informal, formal types of learning (learning drivers) contribute to shape the competitiveness of firms …, focusing on learning capacities, and particularly on human skills, often leads to forget or ignore industry effects, such as …
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The new economic scenario increases the importance of the "innovative capacity" of the agents as crucial competitive instrument in order to attain the differentiating element required by the competitive process. Innovative capacity refers to the agents' capability to transform general knowledge...
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the co-evolution of industry structure and firm behavior. The focus is on the role of technological learning for the …
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new forms of firm organisation such as flexible and learning organisations increasingly are becoming “best practice”, in … an increasingly learning and global economy. On a policy level, in eg. Denmark and OECD, questions are already asked as … scholars, is that it is in certain competitive structures where flexible and learning organisations are well suited, though …
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