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An Evaluation of Research on Integrated Product Development

Gerwin, Donald; Barrowman, Nicholas J. - In: Management Science 48 (2002) 7, pp. 938-953

Integrated Product Development (IPD) creates overlap and interaction between activities in the new product development process and, because this increases the need to coordinate, compensates through other aspects of the new product development process (e.g., integrated tools), product...

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The Impact of Royalty Contract Revision in a Multistage Strategic R&D Alliance

Xiao, Wenqiang; Xu, Yi - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 12, pp. 2251-2271

revision accordingly to improve profits. <i>This paper was accepted by Kamalini Ramdas, entrepreneurship and innovation.</i> …

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Managing Delegated Search Over Design Spaces

Erat, Sanjiv; Krishnan, Vish - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 3, pp. 606-623

accepted by Kamalini Ramdas, entrepreneurship and innovation.</i> …

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Comparing Business and Household Sector Innovation in Consumer Products: Findings from a Representative Study in the United Kingdom

Hippel, Eric von; Jong, Jeroen P. J. de; Flowers, Stephen - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 9, pp. 1669-1681

innovation to be quite large: 6.1% of UK consumers--nearly 2.9 million individuals--have engaged in consumer product innovation … small projects that seem complementary to the innovation efforts of incumbent producers. Consumer innovators very seldom …, productivity studies yield inflated effect sizes for producer innovation in consumer goods. They also imply that existing companies …

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On the Diffusion of Computer Terminals in an Established Engineering Environment

Randles, F. - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 4, pp. 465-476

innovation was established by determining a "logistics" or "diffusion" function to fit the sample data. The function was modified …

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Dynamic Patent Races with Risky Choices

Park, Jaesun - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 12, pp. 1563-1571

This paper investigates equilibrium R&D investment strategies of firms endowed with different innovation potentials. To … address this issue, this paper permits two stages of innovation and develops a simple stochastic game model involving two … firms. It is shown that in equilibrium, a leader in the multiple stage innovation game invests more than a follower; firms …

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Firm's Forecasts of Engineering Employment

Brach, Peter; Mansfield, Edwin - In: Management Science 28 (1982) 2, pp. 156-160

In this paper we present data concerning the accuracy of firm's forecasts of engineering employment and suggest a simple model that may be of use in improving their accuracy. The results, which pertain to 54 firms in the aerospace, electronics, chemical, and oil industries, should be of use to...

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An Evaluation of Federal Policy Instruments to Stimulate Basic Research in Industry

Joglekar, Prafulla; Hamburg, Morris - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 9, pp. 997-1015

A model of the resource allocation behavior of a group of firms demonstrates that unaided industry allocation to basic (inappropriable) research is suboptimal. Furthermore, provision of seed money is generally counterproductive, while the provision of a matching subsidy is not very...

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Navel Gazing: Academic Inbreeding and Scientific Productivity

Horta, Hugo; Veloso, Francisco M.; Grediaga, Rócio - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 3, pp. 414-429

The practice of having Ph.D. graduates employed by the university that trained them, commonly called "academic inbreeding," has long been suspected to be damaging to scholarly practices and achievement. Despite this perception, existing work on academic inbreeding is scarce and mostly...

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A Homogeneous Industry Model of Resource Allocation to Basic Research and Its Policy Implications

Joglekar, Prafulla; Hamburg, Morris - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 2, pp. 225-236

In a recent paper we showed that unaided industry allocation to basic (inappropriable) research is suboptimal and that in stimulating this allocation, provision of government seed money is generally counterproductive, while the provision of matching subsidies is not cost-efficient. Here we...

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