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This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....
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Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...
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The features of innovation, flexibility and change mutually influence one another. Provided that change is perceived as … a feature leading to innovation, flexibility is the feature that enables it. Innovation cannot exist without change but … nonetheless each and every change leads to innovation. Flexibility is a necessary condition but not sufficient for the innovation …
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Abstract External environment of an organization includes a variety of factors, whose existence, influence its behavior and performance. The action of these factors may be direct (for example, the actions of competitors) or indirect (for example, changes in business climate), and external...
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uses the Schumpeterian model of innovation-diffusion as a framework for the study of "why growth rates differ" between …. Chapter 4, which focuses on the relation between innovation-diffusion, structural changes in world trade and export … material to discuss the implications of innovation-diffusion for changes in specialization patterns/intra-industry trade. The …
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responsiveness – speed of innovation and actions taken in the marketplace. …
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The reasons for the deficient performance of Ionian Islands tourism in terms of in coming revenues expressed in USD and return on equity capital invested on hotels is explored. The answers to the questioner of management of the hotels surveyed were analyzed with the use of the Decision Tree...
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innovation programmes and also in many national and regional strategic documents of member states. The cluster development … incorporated in different national and regional strategies focused not only to regional development but to business and innovation …
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This paper develops an endogenous growth model with quality ladders where consumers heterogeneity is assumed and is modelled through non homothetic preferences. We show that in such a model, unlike mainstream quality ladders models, the steady state equilibrium is characterised by a duopoly were...
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of innovation, this paper is divided in three parts. In first part it discusses the business model itself, how to design …
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