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Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.

Lokshin, Boris; Gils, Anita van; Bauer, Eva - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...

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Financial Constraint and R&D Investment: Evidence from CIS

Mohnen, Pierre; Tiwari, Amaresh; Palm, Franz; Schim van … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

Using direct information on financial constraints from questionnaires, rather than the commonly used balance sheet information, this paper presents evidence that, controlling for traditional factors as size, market share, cooperative arrangement, and expected profitability, financial constraints...

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Do R&D tax incentives lead to higher wages for R&D workers? Evidence from the Netherlands

Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

This paper examines the impact of the Dutch R&D tax incentive scheme on the wages of R&D workers. We construct firm specific R&D tax credit rates that vary over time following variations in the Dutch R&D tax incentive program. Using instrumental variables we estimate a wage-sharing model with an...

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Persistence of and interrelation between horizontal and vertical technology alliances

Belderbos, Rene; Gilsing, Victor; Lokshin, Boris - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …

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The Productivity Effects of Internal and External R&D: Evidence From a Dynamic Panel Data Model

Lokshin, Boris; Belderbos, René; Carree, Martin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

We examine the impact of internal and external R&D on labor productivity in a 6-year panel of Dutch manufacturing firms. We apply a dynamic linear panel data model that allows for decreasing or increasing returns to scale in internal and external R&D and for economies of scope. We find...

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Determinants of alliance portfolio complexity and its effect on innovative performance of companies

Duysters, Geert; Lokshin, Boris - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

Alliance formation is often described as a mechanism used by firms to increase voluntary knowledge transfers. Access to external knowledge has been increasingly recognized as a main source of a firm's innovativeness. In this paper we examine decisions to form alliance portfolios of foreign and...

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The bumpy road of technology partnerships: Understanding causes and consequences of partnership mal-functioning

Lokshin, Boris; Hagedoorn, John; Letterie, Wilko - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

to undesired outcomes such as 'partnership mal-functioning' and 'instability' to the degree to which innovation … external activities (in terms of different types of partners) perform best. Moreover, a persistent product oriented innovation …

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Impact of external knowledge acquisition strategies on innovation - A comparative study based on Dutch and Swiss panel data

Arvanitis, Spyros; Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, 'buy' and 'cooperate', on firm's product innovation performance … while both 'buy' and 'cooperate' have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …

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Innovation in Enterprise Clusters: Evidence from Dutch Manufacturing

Diederen, Bert; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Raymond, … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2005

Community Innovation Survey (CIS3), and production and financial statistics. It compares the results of an innovation output …

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Financial Constraints and Other Obstacles: Are they a Threat to Innovation Activity?

Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Schim van der Loeff, Sybrand; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using … statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms …

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