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Precocious Inventors : Early Patenting Success and Lifetime Inventive Performance
Michlbauer, Theresa; Zwick, Thomas - 2021
This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked with survey data that provide information on an extensive...
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The Effect of Staged Project Management on Product Innovation : Evidence From a Firm Survey
Haneda, Shoko; Kurihara, Koki; Ono, Arito - 2023
product innovation is stronger when firms provided feedback at the interim stages. In contrast, whether and how firms set … milestones was not associated with the likelihood of product innovation. The marginal effect of feedback was larger for new …-to-market product innovation than for new-tofirm product innovation, and the feedback from non-R&D organizations within the firm in the …
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Small Firm Innovation Performance and Employee Involvement
Andries, Petra - 2013
CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals' area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …
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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur : a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behavior, and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship
Block, Jörn; Fisch, Christian; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016
Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively discussion in academia and practice alike. Oftentimes, however, the debate is not sufficiently grounded on solid empirical evidence. The academic literature is growing but very...
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Pharmaceutical research strategies
Phlippen, Sandra; Vermeersch, An - 2008
This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of successful research projects. We provide clear evidence that externally sourced projects and projects involving biotechnologies perform better than internal projects and chemical...
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Knowledge production organisation and agglomeration economies
Lambooy, Jan Gerard - 1996
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The Role of Creative Industries in Industrial Innovation
Mueller, Kathrin - 2009
This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy's innovation performance. We conducted a … innovative sectors in the economy. They support innovation in a variety of other sectors through creative inputs, such as ideas … for new products (i.e. innovation content), supplementary products and services (such as software) or marketing support …
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Fishing for Complementarities : Competitive Research Funding and Research Productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014
This paper empirically investigates complementarities between different sources of research funding with regard to academic publishing. We find for a sample of UK engineering academics that competitive funding is associated with an increase in ex-post publications but that industry funding...
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Access to Research Inputs : Open Science Versus the Entrepreneurial University
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Grimpe, Christoph; Pellens, Maikel - 2014
The viability of modern open science norms and practices depend on public disclosure of new knowledge, methods, and materials. However, increasing industry funding of research can restrict the dissemination of results and materials. We show, through a survey sample of 837 German scientists in...
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The transaction costs perspective on standards as a source of trade and productivity growth
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Groot, Stefan P. T.; Lazrak, Faroek - 2007
This paper discusses the design, implementation and use of standards from the perspective of transaction costs economics. A proper design and implementation of standards may lead to a considerable reduction of transaction costs, which enhances trade and, consequently, economic welfare. A major...
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