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innovation through experimentation. It investigates the internal vs. market economies of scale and scope related to projects, as …-organized innovation projects by virtue of localized project ecologies and local labour markets of leaders and boundary spanners. It …
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Recent research on the differentiated MNC has concerned knowledge flows between MNC units. While linking up with this literature, we extend in two directions. First, we argue that conceptualizing the MNC as a knowledge structure furthers the understanding of intra-MNC knowledge flows. Thus, we...
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The many competing schools of thought concerning themselves with industrial clusters have at least one thing in common: they all agree that clusters are real life phenomena characterized by the co-localization of separate economic entities, which are in some sense related, but not joined...
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strategies - the SUDESCA project – are presented. This project is carried out within a system of innovation approach and it is …
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The growing importance of knowledge-based competition has prompted many firms to build international cooperative ventures for skills acquisition and knowledge building. Based on an empirical study of a close collaboration in the knowledge intensive area between a British and a Japanese...
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This paper addresses a puzzle: How is it possible that a country that has established a broad, export-oriented industrial base at record speed, remains vulnerable to the vicissitudes of international finance and currency markets? I argue that the Korean model that was tremendously successful for...
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learning organisational forms in some parts of the economy, characterised by innovation turbulence and cumulativeness, are best …
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This study makes use of the results of a postal questionnaire sent to a sample of large private sector companies in Britain and France to address two key issues in the new institutional analysis of the firm. The first is the way the institutional environment supports and constrains the design of...
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This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing … the link between innovation and profits separately for innovators and non-innovators, and for indigenous innovators and … non-innovators and externally-owned plants. We also consider the determinants of innovation over the distribution of plant …
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An earlier version of this paper was prepared for the joint OECD/Eurostat workshop on innovation surveys, OECD, Paris …, June 30th 1999. The paper addresses some issues about the nature of innovation surveys (particularly the new Community … Innovation Surveys) and how they might be improved to take on board several crucial developments in contemporary advanced …
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