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models is becoming crucial to increase resource productivity and achieve competitive advantages. Notwithstanding eco-innovation … consensus exists on the boundaries and interlinkages among the concepts of Eco-Innovation, Circular Economy and Circular … analysed firms in Emilia Romagna, in terms of cleaner production strategies. By contrast, any business innovation linked to the …
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This paper investigates how the presence of foreign direct investment (FDI) contributes to domestic innovation with a … green innovation of domestic firms in the European Union, mediated through foreign subsidiaries operating in close proximity …. Policy efforts aiming to foster green innovation should therefore prioritise attracting foreign investors with strong …
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ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that …-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with …
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Using a multilevel analysis and the new Harmonized Latin American Innovation Surveys Database (or LAIS database … frontier on firm innovation in Latin American countries. Although innovation is recognized as a multilevel phenomenon, with … competition and the greater the productivity gap, the lower the probability of firms engaging in innovation. In contrast, when a …
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being involved in innovation activities. We distinguish between four types of innovation: product, process, organisational …, and marketing innovation. Moreover, we consider three di erent types of education for employees with at least 16 years of … innovation activities on rm productivity. Using a rotating panel data sample of Danish rms, we nd that di erent types of …
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This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms …. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed … focus on two features in multinational production: (i) fundamental innovation is geographically more difficult to transfer …
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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to … be due to endogenous selection. -- Career Concerns ; Innovation ; Institutional Ownership ; Productivity and R&D …
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We study the effect of different types of barriers to innovation (financial, demand, knowledge, market, cooperation …, and regulatory barriers) on firm level innovation inputs and outputs. Using a pooled sample of three Chilean innovation … surveys, based on an instrumental variables approach, we find that the probability of generating innovation outcomes is …
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We examine the economic analysis of the relationship between innovation and product market competition. First, we give … idea that innovation rises and then eventually falls as the intensity of competition increases. Thirdly, we look at recent …
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We develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm's production chain between a home upstream division and a foreign downstream one....
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